[lit-ideas] Re: Making Conscious the Unconscious in Social Reality
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:06:56 -0500
A character in a James Joyce's novel said that, "History is a nightmare
from which I am trying to awake." . . . By becoming
conscious of the unconscious fantasies that generate collective
violence, is it possible to awakening from the nightmare of history?
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It's Stephen Dedalus talking to the ad guy in the Nestor section of
Ulysses. The guy he addresses there is always putting forth slogans of
uncertain value.
So to avoid Stephen's fate, perhaps you could clarify what you mean by
"unconscious fantasies," and discuss how they generate "collective
violence"?
Joyce himself referred to history as "the here we go again show," so
what would characterize an awakening from it? How would we know we were
awake and not merely having another part of the nightmare where the
dreamer imagines he or she is awake?
Eric
NYC
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