Don Quixote's flight from reality

Don Quixote's flight from reality. - This deep hermeneutic analysis of the content of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote takes a close look at the development undergone by the eponymous hero in the course of the novel. It uses Melanie Klein's concept of the "depressive position" to investigate the transformation of Alonso Quijano, an aging, impoverished landowner, into an errant knight, for whom windmills turn into giants and who sets out to right the injustices in the world before ultimately regaining his powers of reason.