The poetics of dreams
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Authors
Freer, Alexander William
Publication Date
2019-07Journal Title
Critical Quarterly
ISSN
0011-1562
Publisher
Wiley
Volume
61
Issue
2
Pages
77-104
Language
en
Type
Article
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Freer, A. W. (2019). The poetics of dreams. Critical Quarterly, 61 (2), 77-104. https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12468
Abstract
The Interpretation of Dreams provided the central model for psychoanalytic literary criticism, and has generally been understood to offer a model of surface and depth, in which the function of criticism is to reveal or ‘decode’ latent and unconscious content. For this reason Freudian literary reading is most closely associated to a ‘deep’ or ‘suspicious’ hermeneutics of surface and depth. Yet the Interpretation also contains a second account of interpretation, premised on association, which conceives of dreams as if they were poems, rather than symptoms. This strain of associative interpretation in Freud’s writing on dreams suggests a latent, ‘negative’ theory of aesthetics.
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