Catherine Eisner
Monday, 2 September 2019
The Art of Humdrum Angst . . . Dream-like Displacement Activity as Wish-Fulfilment in Popular Fiction.
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In The Interpretation of Dreams ( Die Traumdeutung 1899), Sigmund Freud examines subconscious desires revealed by dream symbolism, in whi...
Sunday, 18 August 2019
Vladimir Nabokov. Berlin March 1922.
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The book fell off his bed into a dream of souls unnumbered, their new imperium ...
Monday, 10 June 2019
Arbour. Amour. Affaire de Coeur . . . Saboteur.
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At the farther end of our garden, behind the boxwood maze, there was a bower with honeysuckle and other creeping plants overlooking th...
Thursday, 16 May 2019
‘Chubby Boy’ Orwell’s Earworm . . . Rural Bard or Faltering Palimpsestic Balladeer . . . ?
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Has any Orwellian scholar, I wonder, checked the verses of their subject against the Suffolk heritage of his youth? As it is, I believe t...
Wednesday, 8 May 2019
Stage Fright and Cage Fighting . . . a Parallel Universe of Freudian Terms.
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As have pointed out in a number of posts here, my admiration for the novelist, Ethelind Colburn Mayne , one of the earliest translators of ...
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