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?
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Psychoanalytic encounters : Interdisciplinary Papers in Applied Psychoanalysis |
| Editors | Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, Murray Schwartz, Elizabeth Fox |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Place of Publication | Beograd |
| Publisher | Belgrade University Press |
| Publication date | 2009 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-86-86563-58-3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Keywords
- Beat Generation
- Dream interpretation