SOME DREAM MECHANISMS IN FINNEGANS-WAKE

Authors
Citation
O. Cox, SOME DREAM MECHANISMS IN FINNEGANS-WAKE, International Journal of Psycho-analysis, 74, 1993, pp. 815-821
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry
ISSN journal
00207578
Volume
74
Year of publication
1993
Part
4
Pages
815 - 821
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-7578(1993)74:<815:SDMIF>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
This paper does not purport to offer a psychoanalytic reading of Finne gans Wake, but rather to demonstrate how, in recreating the mechanisms of the dream, Joyce's masterpiece offers to psychoanalysis a uniquely rich opportunity to explore the shadowy play of the dream in the perm anence of a work of art. In particular, the manner in which Finnegans Wake tells its story through the distortions of dream narrative while bodying forth its protagonists in the substitutions of dream-identity are explored, with the help of certain Freudian and Lacanian concepts of unconscious structure.