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Migli Lisa 5^A A.S. 2012/2013. The role of consciousness in the 20 th Century. Reason for choosing the path. To analyze how the psychological sphere influenced literature, in particular during the 2 0 th Century . Aim of the path. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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

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To analyze how the psychological sphere influenced literature, in

particular during the 20th Century.

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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

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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

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“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

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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

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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

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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

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Italo Svevo: La Coscienza di Zeno

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND TIME

The story does not follow a chronological order

Memories Feelings

SICKNESS AND WEAKNESS

Analysis of Zeno’s psychology

CLUMSINESS

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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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