Output details
34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Leeds : A - Art
Chapter title
Rêvécrire
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
CAMPAGNE PREMIERE
Book title
Rêver Croire Penser: autour d'Hélène Cixous
ISBN of book
9782915789638
Year of publication
2010
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This essay examines the role of the dream in the work of Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida via Freud. It shows that in Freud’s description of ‘dreamwork’ is hidden a theory of writing: the inscription of a signified ‘content’ in the coded form of a system of signifiers. Furthermore, Freud surreptitiously deconstructs the dreamwork/dream-analysis border: rather than decoding it, psychoanalysis continues the dream. A powerful classical opposition – between theory and practice, critical analysis and artistic invention – is thus irrevocably shaken. These insights into Freud, informed by Derrida, shed light on Cixous’s writing, where philosophy and poetry collaborate beguilingly.
