DREAM-TEXT ANALOGY: CONDENSATION-IMAGERY IN JOYCE’S A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
Zanyar Faiq Saeed
Bilind Rahim Faraj
Keywords: -James Joyce -A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - unconscious mind -unconscious interpretation - condensation -imagery
Abstract
Literary texts can be interpreted as dreams. That is, the same mechanisms used to interpret dreams apply to literary texts as well. Both can be seen as manifestations of the unconscious mind. This paper attempts to interpret James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man through one of the mechanisms of dream interpretation, condensation. Dream condensation is similar to literary metaphors that could produce compact images.
