In "On Dreams", Freud stated that feelings of guilt, if repressed by consciousness, inevitably emerge in unconscious symptoms, such as nightmares or madness. Even though a person can repress their conscience, the guilt is simply moved to another part of the mind and, eventually, the repressed matter must return. In Dostoevsky's works, a character's guilt often manifests itself in dreams by presenting the character's purely evil self or his worst fears. Not only does the character himself take on a totally diabolical nature in his dreams, but so do the beings he encounters. Whether the devil appears literally, as in the case of Ivan Karamazov, or in the guise of the character's victim, as in the cases of Raskolnikov and Stavrogin, the mere fact of the devil's appearance reveals that the character has failed to evade guilt, a universal sense of man. , despite what he consciously thinks or says. Since the character himself is responsible for his nightmare, since he is incapable of escaping the sense of guilt that torments him, the character constitutes his own devil. Because he is human, he suffers from guilt and, therefore, cannot get away with his crime. He's not as good at misbehaving as he thinks he is. What do these dreams mean, in light of the fact that they are an author's literary creations? How does guilt effectively temper pride? We will try to answer these questions by examining the crimes, dreams and devils of Raskolnikov, Stavrogin and Ivan Karamazov. It is important when discussing a dream in a novel to distinguish between the literary and psychological implications of the dream. The dream is obviously the functional product of the author's imagination and therefore must serve a specific purpose in the work. If I examine...... half of the paper...... ioso. Guilt is universal throughout humanity and merely completes the psychological equation that arises from excessive pride: if one dares to suppose that one can transcend one's humanity and enter the divine sphere and consequently commit a crime, guilt , emerging unconsciously in dreams, will end up reminding him of his human roots. Works Cited Anderson, Roger B. Dostoevsky: Myths of Duality. Gainesvilled, University of Florida Press, 1986. Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Karamazov brothers. Trans. Constance Garnet. Ed. Ralph E. Matlaw. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1976.---. Crime and punishment. Trans. Jessie Coulson. Ed. Giorgio Gibian. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1989.---. Devils. Trans. and Ed. Michael R. Katz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. New York: School Book Services, 1970.