Dream Work, the Unconscious, and Proustian Effects in Antonio Olinto's The King of Ketu and Prince Justice's Tutuoba: Salem's Black Shango Slave Queen.
This paper partly discusses Sigmund Freud's seminal work, The Interpretation of Dreams, and interrogates the underlying thesis that literary works operate like dreams and the unconscious by not making explicit statements. The paper relates Freud's thoughts on dreams to Marcel Proust's involuntary ex...
| Publicado en: | IUP Journal of English Studies Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 58 - 76 |
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