![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the dream, Lacan is sharing with the audience of his seminar the way in which he judges characters (literary characters primarily, we assume, but also others) that are not his. Joyce’s work is stimulating, he tells us, because it suggests the possibility of such a presentation. Lacan himself dreams, the night before giving his seminar on the 16 th March 1976, about an “easy way of presenting Joyce”. How are we to decipher and cipher these two dreams? And what can this deciphering and ciphering teach us about our approach to dreams as such? In the second place, and more extensively, with Finnegans Wake as the text of Joyce’s dream. In the first place – and this does not happen a lot in Lacan’s seminars – with one of his own dreams. In the third section of Seminar XXIII: The Sinthome, titled by Jacques-Alain Miller “The Invention of the Real”, and especially in its middle chapter, “On Sens, Sex and the Real” – itself an elaboration of ideas first set out the year before in the lecture “Joyce the Symptom” – we find Lacan concerned with the question of dreams. ![]()
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