Beat Dreams? Jack Kerouac's Book of Dreams

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    Abstract

    Two of the founding members of the Beat Generation of the 1950s wrote dream books with almost identical titles: Jack Kerouac's Book of Dreams (1961) and William Burroughs' My Education: A Book of Dreams (1995). This paper queries the function of such dream books, both from a perspective of seeing dream writing as a confessional genre, and from the perspective of didacticism implicit in sharing one's dream life with one's readers. What role does memory, politics, fantasies and reality play in communicating with and via dreams?
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TitelPsychoanalytic encounters : Interdisciplinary Papers in Applied Psychoanalysis
    RedaktørerAleksandar Dimitrijevic, Murray Schwartz, Elizabeth Fox
    Antal sider7
    UdgivelsesstedBeograd
    ForlagBelgrade University Press
    Publikationsdato2009
    ISBN (Trykt)978-86-86563-58-3
    StatusUdgivet - 2009

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