The Ideal Real: Beckett's Fiction and ImaginationFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1994 - 265 pagina's The Beckett heroes, whose experiences are discussed in this book, were conditioned by a "humanistic" education much like Beckett's; but they come to find that the self they were taught to see as their own is nonexistent. Having nothing in their acquired personality to cope with this crisis, Murphy, Molloy, Moran, Malone, and all that follow find themselves dying to their old self, to everything a Western liberal education could think of as self. Early on, Beckett saw clues to the situation in the work of Jung, the "mind doctor" who represented the opposite of the empirical tradition. Jung, like the esoteric schools, saw a potential human whose development was sometimes delayed or prevented by the very system the claimed to "educate" and "civilize" the personality. The existence of this potential self has been doubted by many modern thinkers, but Beckett's stories show "a soul denied in vain" since it is the enabler of all speech, whether apparently denying or affirming. |
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What Is Man? The Search for Reality | 17 |
Trusty Things? More Pricks Than Kicks Murphy | 27 |
Laughing at the Referent Watt Mercier and Camier | 43 |
Lies in the Trilogy Molloy Malone Dies | 61 |
The You That Is Not You How It | 92 |
Fancy and Imagination in the Rotunda All Strange | 131 |
Exits for Amateurs of Myth Imagination Dead | 151 |
Imagination Living From an Abandoned Work | 169 |
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