title: Some dream mechanisms in Finnegans Wake.
abstract: This paper does not purport to offer a psychoanalytic reading of Finnegans 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 permanence 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.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Cox
mesh_terms: D004325:Dreams; D006801:Humans; D008093:Literature, Modern; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology