Some dream mechanisms in Finnegans Wake.

This paper does not purport to offer a psychoanalytic reading of Finnegans Wake, but rather to demonstrate how, in recreating the mechanisms of the dream, Joyce's masterpiece offers to psychoanalysis a uniquely rich opportunity to explore the shadowy play of the dream in the permanence of a work of art. In particular, the manner in which Finnegans Wake tells its story through the distortions of dream narrative while bodying forth its protagonists in the substitutions of dream-identity are explored, with the help of certain Freudian and Lacanian concepts of unconscious structure.