> The emergence of the novel in the 18th and 19th centuries introduced omniscient narrators who could penetrate their characters’ psyches, at times probing moti

> The emergence of the novel in the 18th and 19th centuries introduced omniscient narrators who could penetrate their characters’ psyches, at times probing motives that were opaque to the characters themselves. And by the 20th century, many authors labored not just to describe, but to simulate the psychological experience of characters. What about Scipio's Dream by Cicero? http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/cicero_dream_of_scipio_02_trans.htm http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/cicero_dream_of_scipio_02_... One of the earliest psychoanalytical novel I know.