Dream-work
Does the highlighted section in the text below mean "dream-work studies and theories consider the structural interplay between meaning and non-sense as a model of symbolic distortion"?
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This will be the most historical chapter, referring to nineteenth-century Symbolist painter Odilon Redon, whose work predates Freud but exemplifies the structural interplay between meaning and non-sense offered by the dream-work as a model of symbolic distortion.
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Sorry, but I laughed out loud at that one. It reminded me of Arthur Dent's critique of the Vogon's poetry. She lost me at "as".
- Sorry, but I laughed out loud at that one.
- It reminded me of Arthur Dent's critique of the Vogon's poetry.
- She lost me at "as".
- I can't see how a dream-work, whatever that is, can offer anything as a model of something that itself exemplifies something else, but that is what it says.
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Sorry, but I laughed out loud at that one. It reminded me of Arthur Dent's critique of the Vogon's poetry. She lost me at "as". I can't see how a dream-work, whatever that is, can offer anything as a model of something that itself exemplifies something else, but that is what it says.
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