SOURCE: Schreiber, Evelyn. “Stream-of-Consciousness and Freud's Primary Process: Comprehending Pinter's Old Times.” Literature and Psychology (1994): 71-80.
In the following essay, Schreiber discusses Pinter's use of dialogue in Old Times in terms of Freudian psychoanalytic theories of the unconscious mind. Schreiber asserts that Pinter's dialogue resembles the stream-of-consciousness flow of private internal thoughts.