Resistance in Theory, Reading, and the Dream of Irma’s
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Teorijski otpori, čitanje i san o Irminoj injekciji
Resistance in Theory, Reading, and the Dream of Irma’s Injection

Author(s): Andrea Milanko
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Psychoanalysis, Theory of Literature
Published by: Hrvatsko filološko društvo
Keywords: interpretation of dreams; resistance to reading; navel of the dream; sexual difference; feminist literary criticism;

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, the author takes up Freud’s analysis of the so-called dream of Irma’s injection to be an example par excellence of Freud’s dream analysis. The analysis of this specific dream-work is crucial for understanding genealogy that is made of various contested readings between feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, on the one hand, and deconstruction, on the other. Freud’s analysis and its impact on reading procedures outside psychoanalytic interests are being examined in order to gain insight into how they contribute to the politics of reading literary texts. Thus, the discussion will range from Freud and Lacan to Felman and Derrida.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 227-247
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Croatian