« Somnambulisme », ou l’après-coup de la métaphore
This essay aims to show that “Somnambulism,” a short story by Charles Brockden Brown published in 1799 foreshadows several Freudian tenets that allow, in turn, to fully measure the symbolic purport of this fiction. Reading thus becomes bidirectional, obeying the very principle of Nachträglichkeit (d...
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2019-09-01
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| Series: | Transatlantica |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/12830 |