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1 Migli Lisa 5^A A.S. 2012/2013

2 To analyze how the psychological sphere influenced literature, in particular during the 20 th Century.

3  To examine in depth some features of the Modern Age, in order to find out how consciousness works  To train in view of the final examination

4  Charles Darwin’s Evolution Theory (1859)  Friedrich Nietzsche’s Die fröhliche Wissenschaft (1882) → God is dead  Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity (1905-1913)  Sigmund Freud’s Interpretation of dreams (1899)  Mark Planck’s Postulate (1900) The whole world undergoes a deep transformation

5 “The interpretation of dreams” (Die Traumdeutung), 1899 Dream interpretation UNCONSCIOUS Superego, Ego, The most intimate dimension: the unconscious reveals itself Dream = A form of “wish fulfillment” LITERATURE AND ART begin to investigate the unconscious Break with Victorian tradition Es

6 Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway The handling of time Chronological time: Mrs Dalloway moves around London, disturbed by the strikes of the Big Ben Interior time: travel in space and time, according to Mrs Dalloway’s flux of thoughts Human mind’s complexity

7 James Joyce: The Dubliners Gabriel Conroy’s epiphany A sudden spiritual manifestation: it shows mankind’s paralysis Without following your emotions and private feelings, you cannot fully live

8 James Joyce: Ulysses The stream of consciousness and the interior monologue The mind does not follow a linear conception of time The psychological sphere dominates mankind: the unconscious becomes predominant

9 Italo Svevo: La Coscienza di Zeno PSYCHOANALYSIS AND TIME The story does not follow a chronological order MemoriesFeelings SICKNESS AND WEAKNESS Analysis of Zeno’s psychology CLUMSINESS

10 Salvador Dalì, The persistence of memory (1931)Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night (1889) Reality is a dynamic and subjective entity: it depends on men’s perspective about it.

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