The Other Night : Dreaming, Writing, and Restlessness in Twentieth-Century Literature / Herschel Farbman.
Farbman, Herschel, author.
2022
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Title The Other Night : Dreaming, Writing, and Restlessness in Twentieth-Century Literature / Herschel Farbman.
Author Farbman, Herschel, author.
ISBN 9780823293124
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823293124
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2009
Language English
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Description 1 online resource (162 p.)
Item Number 10.1515/9780823293124 doi
Summary "I sleep, but my heart wakes," says the Song of Songs. "The other night" names the sleepless night we spend in dreams. From The Interpretation of Dreams to Finnegans Wake, many of the great writing projects of the first half of the twentieth century articulate experiences of waking in the very depths of sleep, where no "I" can declare itself present though the heart still beats. After World War II, in the cold light of the closure of the age of dreambooks, Beckett and Blanchot discover with new clarity, and new fatigue, that what wakes when the "I" sleeps doesn't sleep when the "I" wakes. Revisiting Freud's argument that the dream is a form of writing, The Other Night looks at how life becomes literature in this wakefulness. Though we seem to be seeing things in our dreams, we are actually confronted with a kind of writing. This writing is not in our power, and yet it is ours. We are responsible for it in the same strange way that we are responsible for our lives.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Other Night
1. The Dream as Writing: Freud's Theory
2. Dream and Writing in Blanchot
3. Beckett's Restlessness
4. Finnegans Wake
Afterword: The Dream and Writing of Socrates
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

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