Perverse nonsense and “confusion of tongues” among Lewis Carroll’s characters
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2022.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : Early in his career, Freud described a radical distinction between two principles of psychic functioning: primary and secondary. From this model, we show how Lewis Carroll plays with the articulation between these two planes and stages several modalities of nonsense. The discourse that unfolds between the characters of Alice’s adventures reveals a perverse nonsense, which operates on the psyche of the interlocutor by disavowing the differences between the two schemes of mental functioning. The Carrollian stories are the scene of a “confusion of tongues” which can explain, in part, the trouble caused by their reading over the past century and a half.
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Early in his career, Freud described a radical distinction between two principles of psychic functioning: primary and secondary. From this model, we show how Lewis Carroll plays with the articulation between these two planes and stages several modalities of nonsense. The discourse that unfolds between the characters of Alice’s adventures reveals a perverse nonsense, which operates on the psyche of the interlocutor by disavowing the differences between the two schemes of mental functioning. The Carrollian stories are the scene of a “confusion of tongues” which can explain, in part, the trouble caused by their reading over the past century and a half.
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