The
companmentalised
units which he saw in tw youth, the discrete imaga of londy indi_ v;dual!
Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake
:adeT ofPiMq_ Wdt, in which surface_tature haa become aU.
important.
Within it nothing i, artificial because all is frankly artifice, nothing ;.
lupcrficial because all il lunaee.
The more dearly j oyce can IOcw our auemion On the IUrface details of his style, the ktt.
.
we are able to appreciate his meaning.
There is ne""r any
quation ofreading through the "","", which has becn virtually engulfed hy the ltitrnl>li<> technique. It is prohably true to oay
that <;very paragnph in Pb"" glUU Wak. it both built up out of picct:s draWl:( from dJcwooe in the book and, ron",,~ly, capable of being broken down and related 10 all the divnse
t;Onte:x1S from which those piec. . ca"",.
Of course the motif. in Fi~". gallJ Work. are not all equally
functional or dynamic, and there are a considerahle number which appro:rimate to what Wahd colis tbe Visi~w, or what Mr. Fortier neatly design"t. . a 'banner''-although (""n in thc cue of jOY~'1 simplest adaptations of Homeric epithet and the catch_phrase of Dicke",ian caricature, he i. rarely seen to walr(; two hannen with ~ixly the . . . . me device. E:u. cl dupli<:ation is in fact to companti. . . ,ly rare in this boot. whooc main concern it with modality, Ibat the few "". mp'" wbich are to be found there nand OUt with particular cmph"';';
they may wdl have been used fnr just that reason.
Stephen Dedal",. nd the young joyce, at we know from the notCboo\:l,' oa great store by Itatic qualities in an. The pcrftttly poised static moment which made rev. :latlon possible Wat what
? uimwliv
SI"pllea called lh~ 'epiphany'. j O)'tt nev<:r ~ntirely abandoned this aesthetic th. . ,ry, bUI in F~,mu Wdt he . uoi",ilal(:d il into a mllure lechnique which soesfar bcyund the imalti""li~ range of the urly notcbookjollingt. Mrs. G]. ;uhecn'. an tllion Ihal Theodore S! ",r>Ccr _ talking non. . . . . . . , ,,? hen h~ II. J. ICd Ih. . . tJOYC~'15u"". ,. . i,""works are . . . U'illustration. , intcnai! icatioru . . . nd enlargement>' of the theory of epiphanie. ' i, not entirely j Ulti! ied for, mwl<liU "",I<I,. ,JU, the b6t of the motifs in Fin"'81U11
Wah se~ much the nme type offunction as do the epiphanies of the early book,. Those cpiphanifs, though frequently effee- tive enough in the,"",l". ,. , ICnded to halt all for. <<anl movement of the namlti~. . " as every ruder of StqJ4m IImJ ia aw! U-. :; the I,"_i",O{,. ~ W. u,an Ihog. :lher morelunmJined. nd IJUpple equi,-alcnl, ! U-. : O"Ue to Ihnr name and a1waY' lcad the reader on 10 funhe. variatioru and relationship . j w t as the individual Itatic frames of a motion. picture aTe given lire . . . nd
mOVement when resolv~don Ihe cinema-sc. . . ,. n, $0 each ""quen. e ofpenetrating motif. stat~ment> . . tnade to fUK into a dyoamic image of . . . ,ality. Evcn in isolation many of the longer motifl . . . . . . , triumphs of the epiphany technique. 'Vikingfalhcr Sleeps' il an exp"""'" of thc total paralysis 0{ h;"h civilisation that would hn. . , won th~ harsh Stephen" astoru. hed approval, while the d. . . . ? elopment of Ihe paaage through IWO major vari- anl. ! . ho>. . . . how much funherjora',llier mann~r ""abies him
to go in th~ analys;, of an inuanl of revelation,
'Liverpoor ? Sol a bit ofi! ! Hi. brayn('l coolt pamtch, his pelt na. . y, h;, heart'. adrone, hi, bluid. <! rcaJT\l acrawl, hil puff but a pifl", h;, '""trem~Iies ,""lremdy 10' renglcss, Pawmbroke, Cbilblaimend a nd Baldow! . IJ un oph iI in hil doge. WOl"ds weigh no no more to him than rnindrir- to R~lhf~rnhim. Which We allliu. Rain. When "'" o. lttp. Dro]ll. 8uI wail until our$leeping
Drain. Sdops. ' (14. 13)
'Ri,. . pooI? Hod a brieck on it! BUI iu piers eerie, il. 1 span . poolEy, iu toll but a till, it! parapcl. 1 all ! "',ipato:ting. D'Oh-. lo~g'. by his by. Which we . ll pa. . , TON. In our 1Il00.
j A. Gt. uhoen, 'J""'''jOJl'''', r. rtPHANIFS", TlwJ_J"" 111";-, ",I. I, nO. ],1'. 4~.
,68
? l. eifnwtiv
Zno",. While we hickerwar<h the thicker. Schein. Scho",: (266. 03)
'Caffi. . and cull. and <>nceagain overalls, th~ fittel! mrviva lives that blued, iom and storridge can make them. Whichu, all claims. Clean. Whenastderps. Close. And tI", mannormillor dipperclappers. Noxt. Doze. ' (61'1-'0)
The ponenton, qUe$tion 'How a", you t. ,day, my dark sirr- the multilingual verbigeration' of a wrathful militant society demanding the abdication of the pacifist- and l'iggot. Ear. wicker', misspelling of 'hClittncy',' though more fleeting motif" are epiphanies of even wider significance.
WhereM Stephen would have built up art (tut of a sequence of ,uch independent momeuu. the matu", Joyc~ prtferred to
mnhilise a limited number of them into rulUling m,)! if. , whose power of "howing furth' would be vastly inc",ascd hy their complex interweavin~. This new technique is the pr. ,duct of
Joyce'. changing world_view.
The companmentalised units which he saw in tw youth, the discrete imaga of londy indi_ v;dual! , each ofwhose imp"nelrable faces he carefully and prig- gishly ocrutini,ed in an attempt to 'pierce to the mntive centre of its uglineM' (SH oS), have become in F;muCIVlS Wake a con_ tinuum where the identifying epiphany i, no more than a momentary illusion, a play of light, ,till giving iruight, but much broader in ocop" and capabk of being shifted to a virtu_ ally inexh. . mtible variety of contexts without 10M of power. The kitmlltW, One of the most flexible of all t<:cl,nical devices, is
Joyce', mO$1 effe~tive weapon in hi. '! struggle to leave individua_ tion behind and create a truly generali",d comciousn". . . To do this he had 10 abandon static art and oome full circle back to kinesis; Stephen was ob. essed with the problem of how to capture a ',till' from the motion-picture ()f life, wh. . cas tbe l a t e r J o y c e w a n t e d 1 0 k e r p t b e C;lJn~ra o f h i . ' a ! 1 n i g h t .
nCM<:ry"':d' (4119. 35) turning with hal'dly a pause for medi? tation; he cven went to the length of joining both end. of the film.
? Latmotiv
In disculling Ulps. . , Mr. Robert Humphrey attemp'" to t"-ategwi$t the many motifs in ! hat book a. . 'image, . ymoo! , or w<lrd_phrase motil:. '. ' He . uggt:ots that Stephen'. constant \lcinn ofhis mother is an imagt:_motif, 1IIoom', potato a symbol- motif, and 'met him pike hnses' a ""rhal motif, but all thi> is true only at the 'implest rcfcrcntiallevd; ultimately, ofcon"", all MT. Humphrry'. motif! a u equally verbal, and Mr. Kenner did well to warn "" tho. ! in reading Joyce we cannot be 100 ;nUlten! onthen~toCQn<:<ontratemostofourimmediate attention nn th(, word. imtud of ruding through tbem. ' The point is nn doubt a rather trite nne, but interputation of Ulysses
h", long been, and often ,till is, dogged by too natural"'tic . . reading of the text, which unduly plays down the linguistic leveL TnUIyS1<$Joy<:t:has,itiJtrue,oftenintegratedhis""'hal motifs SO skillfully into a naturalistic oontext that, 10 we his CaTty tcnninology, lfu:y function dramatically; an illwion of independent exi3tenr. e B created fOT them. Such ; ' the ca,e with the 'Pen"""'" motif: when Bloom meets tho pak: young man and immedia\dy afterwards remembcn the nam<: 'Pelll'OM:' (U '70), tIu: /,ib"t>ti<Julu: rotlnexion with the earlier paso. age in which he had vainly tried to recan the name ;" ~tabl;"hed by a prOCeM SO psychologically real and compelling that the reader B, in the fi,. . t ddight at recognitinn, ,nade 10 fur~t how simple a contrivance i, involved. In Fin""gaAf W4h Joyce abandoned ,uch tromp. flZi! methods alto~ther. Here the motifs are ndther . uperimpo&cd on, nor embedded in, anything but a matrix of other motifs and mutif. fragments; no motif can "'em out ofcontext in ouch company, though some will provide greater opportunio. . fur organic dev<:lnpmenllhan othe,. . . The greatneM ofJoyce'. art in FirwgdfU Wah Ii. . in the brilliane<: with which he . . ,lee", and juxtAp",,," groups ofmOli(i; to devdop
h;" materials in the best of a grea. t many p<. >Wble waY'. While
feeling hi. way toward thi, optimum thematic devdopment Joyce ="" to havc made a practice of arbitrariJ. y ocattering a
,Il. . Hump/u<:y. S_tf("~in. . . . . M""'"NO<<! ,""'. hl""ond Loo ""'gd. ,. , '9~8, p. 9"
? II. Kem1er, D. M. . ? ? J"7", u. . don, '9~~, pj>. ,~. If. '1'
? uitmQtiv
few motif, he", and there in hi! text to serve as stimuli fur hi. imagination. Such a motif, originally included mn", or lea "'gardlc:ss of context, always become. a wurce of inspiration
to him. Like the grain in the oyster which grow. into a pearl- blister, it i. olowly ellcN. ted with symbol. <, ima~, and over_ tones which diffwe into and finally become all uscntial part of the context. ' The Erid. h Museum manuscrlpu indicate how very oftell this wasJoyce'. working method. It is worth noting, aiw, that, until Joyce had worked out the horizontal . tructure <>fhis cpiaod. ,. , the <nOtm appea. . . ,o only very thinly in the texl>, and often not at all for long ,\retch. ,. . LU soon as tM baMC fabric was clear in Joyce'. mind the motif. began to develop abund- antly, building up the hannonic . tructure and tying the sprawl- ing cycles together with taut bonds stretched from point to
point.
It is cl<:". that in FiMtlgans Wal. aoy . uch cl"";fication of
motifs as Mr. Humph",y'. is imJl<""Sible from tM . tart. T he distinction between image and. ymbol, ifitev~r had any validity with respect to Joyce'. earlier worb, certainly has none here. Rec=nt ide", appear now in on~ guise, oow in another. Anna Livia may be . ecn a. a woman, r~membt:r. . d. . . , a d",am- vision, heard in the ripple of the watery PfO$e, ouggeoted in the punctuation of a phra. e. The <>nly important distinctio"" now I<> be made have to do with filllction.
There are a gr<:at many ways in which kU"",iWs may function to develop a book. They define characler, give accents to the line of narrative development, control 1M rhythm of the struc- ture and impose order on what may without them I! CCm dis- orderly. A . . ,ri? ? of motifS, however slender, creal. . a skeletal grid-pall<:m which, provided it h. . . , some truly functional re-
lati<>nship to the book'. themes, help' the . . . ,adec to organile his respon&es in phase with those themes. Indeed, this ordering and unifying function of the Idlm. lio is probably il> greal<:lt . ~ngth. I shall attempt in the following pages and in my final
' Cf. ),{T. M. J. C. Hodgan'. h&ppy analogy of,,,,,, fit,,,,,,, dno. wn by a nug. ><1: M. J. C. I-lodgart ond M. P. Worthing10t1, s. . , . . tIot W. . k, of
:1_s:1'7", Now Yo<k, '959. p. '7? '7'
? uilllU)tilJ
chapter to dcmonstrate rome of Ihe waY' in whi(h motit;, ICtvc to organ"': and unify Fil/Jltgmtr W,w,.
By mean. of the /ti/m. tiw and a host of key_word3 related to them Joyce wnstruct& the ""vera! frames of refereno:: which underline the scattered component par'" of his artificial univen<o. Th ese are the co-ordinates of hi; 'proleiform graph' ('07. oS) to which we may appeal to get our b. arings whellever
we are 'lost in the bUlh' (, '~. 03). U. ually a number of such ref"""lial grids are presem simultaneoudy. Joyce'. nor",al
m. ,hod;' in fact to operate On three main plan'" al once: in lhe fureground ;. the manifest OOntent of the episode in que>tion, oorresponding to the manifest content ofa dream; in the middle- ground i. a m"",,, of highly symbolic, but often pu""ling, material, """ttered about like Ihe "age-propenies ofa dramalk
producer with an obo"";onal neufOS;', and COITesponding 10 Ihe dream-symbol .
quation ofreading through the "","", which has becn virtually engulfed hy the ltitrnl>li<> technique. It is prohably true to oay
that <;very paragnph in Pb"" glUU Wak. it both built up out of picct:s draWl:( from dJcwooe in the book and, ron",,~ly, capable of being broken down and related 10 all the divnse
t;Onte:x1S from which those piec. . ca"",.
Of course the motif. in Fi~". gallJ Work. are not all equally
functional or dynamic, and there are a considerahle number which appro:rimate to what Wahd colis tbe Visi~w, or what Mr. Fortier neatly design"t. . a 'banner''-although (""n in thc cue of jOY~'1 simplest adaptations of Homeric epithet and the catch_phrase of Dicke",ian caricature, he i. rarely seen to walr(; two hannen with ~ixly the . . . . me device. E:u. cl dupli<:ation is in fact to companti. . . ,ly rare in this boot. whooc main concern it with modality, Ibat the few "". mp'" wbich are to be found there nand OUt with particular cmph"';';
they may wdl have been used fnr just that reason.
Stephen Dedal",. nd the young joyce, at we know from the notCboo\:l,' oa great store by Itatic qualities in an. The pcrftttly poised static moment which made rev. :latlon possible Wat what
? uimwliv
SI"pllea called lh~ 'epiphany'. j O)'tt nev<:r ~ntirely abandoned this aesthetic th. . ,ry, bUI in F~,mu Wdt he . uoi",ilal(:d il into a mllure lechnique which soesfar bcyund the imalti""li~ range of the urly notcbookjollingt. Mrs. G]. ;uhecn'. an tllion Ihal Theodore S! ",r>Ccr _ talking non. . . . . . . , ,,? hen h~ II. J. ICd Ih. . . tJOYC~'15u"". ,. . i,""works are . . . U'illustration. , intcnai! icatioru . . . nd enlargement>' of the theory of epiphanie. ' i, not entirely j Ulti! ied for, mwl<liU "",I<I,. ,JU, the b6t of the motifs in Fin"'81U11
Wah se~ much the nme type offunction as do the epiphanies of the early book,. Those cpiphanifs, though frequently effee- tive enough in the,"",l". ,. , ICnded to halt all for. <<anl movement of the namlti~. . " as every ruder of StqJ4m IImJ ia aw! U-. :; the I,"_i",O{,. ~ W. u,an Ihog. :lher morelunmJined. nd IJUpple equi,-alcnl, ! U-. : O"Ue to Ihnr name and a1waY' lcad the reader on 10 funhe. variatioru and relationship . j w t as the individual Itatic frames of a motion. picture aTe given lire . . . nd
mOVement when resolv~don Ihe cinema-sc. . . ,. n, $0 each ""quen. e ofpenetrating motif. stat~ment> . . tnade to fUK into a dyoamic image of . . . ,ality. Evcn in isolation many of the longer motifl . . . . . . , triumphs of the epiphany technique. 'Vikingfalhcr Sleeps' il an exp"""'" of thc total paralysis 0{ h;"h civilisation that would hn. . , won th~ harsh Stephen" astoru. hed approval, while the d. . . . ? elopment of Ihe paaage through IWO major vari- anl. ! . ho>. . . . how much funherjora',llier mann~r ""abies him
to go in th~ analys;, of an inuanl of revelation,
'Liverpoor ? Sol a bit ofi! ! Hi. brayn('l coolt pamtch, his pelt na. . y, h;, heart'. adrone, hi, bluid. <! rcaJT\l acrawl, hil puff but a pifl", h;, '""trem~Iies ,""lremdy 10' renglcss, Pawmbroke, Cbilblaimend a nd Baldow! . IJ un oph iI in hil doge. WOl"ds weigh no no more to him than rnindrir- to R~lhf~rnhim. Which We allliu. Rain. When "'" o. lttp. Dro]ll. 8uI wail until our$leeping
Drain. Sdops. ' (14. 13)
'Ri,. . pooI? Hod a brieck on it! BUI iu piers eerie, il. 1 span . poolEy, iu toll but a till, it! parapcl. 1 all ! "',ipato:ting. D'Oh-. lo~g'. by his by. Which we . ll pa. . , TON. In our 1Il00.
j A. Gt. uhoen, 'J""'''jOJl'''', r. rtPHANIFS", TlwJ_J"" 111";-, ",I. I, nO. ],1'. 4~.
,68
? l. eifnwtiv
Zno",. While we hickerwar<h the thicker. Schein. Scho",: (266. 03)
'Caffi. . and cull. and <>nceagain overalls, th~ fittel! mrviva lives that blued, iom and storridge can make them. Whichu, all claims. Clean. Whenastderps. Close. And tI", mannormillor dipperclappers. Noxt. Doze. ' (61'1-'0)
The ponenton, qUe$tion 'How a", you t. ,day, my dark sirr- the multilingual verbigeration' of a wrathful militant society demanding the abdication of the pacifist- and l'iggot. Ear. wicker', misspelling of 'hClittncy',' though more fleeting motif" are epiphanies of even wider significance.
WhereM Stephen would have built up art (tut of a sequence of ,uch independent momeuu. the matu", Joyc~ prtferred to
mnhilise a limited number of them into rulUling m,)! if. , whose power of "howing furth' would be vastly inc",ascd hy their complex interweavin~. This new technique is the pr. ,duct of
Joyce'. changing world_view.
The companmentalised units which he saw in tw youth, the discrete imaga of londy indi_ v;dual! , each ofwhose imp"nelrable faces he carefully and prig- gishly ocrutini,ed in an attempt to 'pierce to the mntive centre of its uglineM' (SH oS), have become in F;muCIVlS Wake a con_ tinuum where the identifying epiphany i, no more than a momentary illusion, a play of light, ,till giving iruight, but much broader in ocop" and capabk of being shifted to a virtu_ ally inexh. . mtible variety of contexts without 10M of power. The kitmlltW, One of the most flexible of all t<:cl,nical devices, is
Joyce', mO$1 effe~tive weapon in hi. '! struggle to leave individua_ tion behind and create a truly generali",d comciousn". . . To do this he had 10 abandon static art and oome full circle back to kinesis; Stephen was ob. essed with the problem of how to capture a ',till' from the motion-picture ()f life, wh. . cas tbe l a t e r J o y c e w a n t e d 1 0 k e r p t b e C;lJn~ra o f h i . ' a ! 1 n i g h t .
nCM<:ry"':d' (4119. 35) turning with hal'dly a pause for medi? tation; he cven went to the length of joining both end. of the film.
? Latmotiv
In disculling Ulps. . , Mr. Robert Humphrey attemp'" to t"-ategwi$t the many motifs in ! hat book a. . 'image, . ymoo! , or w<lrd_phrase motil:. '. ' He . uggt:ots that Stephen'. constant \lcinn ofhis mother is an imagt:_motif, 1IIoom', potato a symbol- motif, and 'met him pike hnses' a ""rhal motif, but all thi> is true only at the 'implest rcfcrcntiallevd; ultimately, ofcon"", all MT. Humphrry'. motif! a u equally verbal, and Mr. Kenner did well to warn "" tho. ! in reading Joyce we cannot be 100 ;nUlten! onthen~toCQn<:<ontratemostofourimmediate attention nn th(, word. imtud of ruding through tbem. ' The point is nn doubt a rather trite nne, but interputation of Ulysses
h", long been, and often ,till is, dogged by too natural"'tic . . reading of the text, which unduly plays down the linguistic leveL TnUIyS1<$Joy<:t:has,itiJtrue,oftenintegratedhis""'hal motifs SO skillfully into a naturalistic oontext that, 10 we his CaTty tcnninology, lfu:y function dramatically; an illwion of independent exi3tenr. e B created fOT them. Such ; ' the ca,e with the 'Pen"""'" motif: when Bloom meets tho pak: young man and immedia\dy afterwards remembcn the nam<: 'Pelll'OM:' (U '70), tIu: /,ib"t>ti<Julu: rotlnexion with the earlier paso. age in which he had vainly tried to recan the name ;" ~tabl;"hed by a prOCeM SO psychologically real and compelling that the reader B, in the fi,. . t ddight at recognitinn, ,nade 10 fur~t how simple a contrivance i, involved. In Fin""gaAf W4h Joyce abandoned ,uch tromp. flZi! methods alto~ther. Here the motifs are ndther . uperimpo&cd on, nor embedded in, anything but a matrix of other motifs and mutif. fragments; no motif can "'em out ofcontext in ouch company, though some will provide greater opportunio. . fur organic dev<:lnpmenllhan othe,. . . The greatneM ofJoyce'. art in FirwgdfU Wah Ii. . in the brilliane<: with which he . . ,lee", and juxtAp",,," groups ofmOli(i; to devdop
h;" materials in the best of a grea. t many p<. >Wble waY'. While
feeling hi. way toward thi, optimum thematic devdopment Joyce ="" to havc made a practice of arbitrariJ. y ocattering a
,Il. . Hump/u<:y. S_tf("~in. . . . . M""'"NO<<! ,""'. hl""ond Loo ""'gd. ,. , '9~8, p. 9"
? II. Kem1er, D. M. . ? ? J"7", u. . don, '9~~, pj>. ,~. If. '1'
? uitmQtiv
few motif, he", and there in hi! text to serve as stimuli fur hi. imagination. Such a motif, originally included mn", or lea "'gardlc:ss of context, always become. a wurce of inspiration
to him. Like the grain in the oyster which grow. into a pearl- blister, it i. olowly ellcN. ted with symbol. <, ima~, and over_ tones which diffwe into and finally become all uscntial part of the context. ' The Erid. h Museum manuscrlpu indicate how very oftell this wasJoyce'. working method. It is worth noting, aiw, that, until Joyce had worked out the horizontal . tructure <>fhis cpiaod. ,. , the <nOtm appea. . . ,o only very thinly in the texl>, and often not at all for long ,\retch. ,. . LU soon as tM baMC fabric was clear in Joyce'. mind the motif. began to develop abund- antly, building up the hannonic . tructure and tying the sprawl- ing cycles together with taut bonds stretched from point to
point.
It is cl<:". that in FiMtlgans Wal. aoy . uch cl"";fication of
motifs as Mr. Humph",y'. is imJl<""Sible from tM . tart. T he distinction between image and. ymbol, ifitev~r had any validity with respect to Joyce'. earlier worb, certainly has none here. Rec=nt ide", appear now in on~ guise, oow in another. Anna Livia may be . ecn a. a woman, r~membt:r. . d. . . , a d",am- vision, heard in the ripple of the watery PfO$e, ouggeoted in the punctuation of a phra. e. The <>nly important distinctio"" now I<> be made have to do with filllction.
There are a gr<:at many ways in which kU"",iWs may function to develop a book. They define characler, give accents to the line of narrative development, control 1M rhythm of the struc- ture and impose order on what may without them I! CCm dis- orderly. A . . ,ri? ? of motifS, however slender, creal. . a skeletal grid-pall<:m which, provided it h. . . , some truly functional re-
lati<>nship to the book'. themes, help' the . . . ,adec to organile his respon&es in phase with those themes. Indeed, this ordering and unifying function of the Idlm. lio is probably il> greal<:lt . ~ngth. I shall attempt in the following pages and in my final
' Cf. ),{T. M. J. C. Hodgan'. h&ppy analogy of,,,,,, fit,,,,,,, dno. wn by a nug. ><1: M. J. C. I-lodgart ond M. P. Worthing10t1, s. . , . . tIot W. . k, of
:1_s:1'7", Now Yo<k, '959. p. '7? '7'
? uilllU)tilJ
chapter to dcmonstrate rome of Ihe waY' in whi(h motit;, ICtvc to organ"': and unify Fil/Jltgmtr W,w,.
By mean. of the /ti/m. tiw and a host of key_word3 related to them Joyce wnstruct& the ""vera! frames of refereno:: which underline the scattered component par'" of his artificial univen<o. Th ese are the co-ordinates of hi; 'proleiform graph' ('07. oS) to which we may appeal to get our b. arings whellever
we are 'lost in the bUlh' (, '~. 03). U. ually a number of such ref"""lial grids are presem simultaneoudy. Joyce'. nor",al
m. ,hod;' in fact to operate On three main plan'" al once: in lhe fureground ;. the manifest OOntent of the episode in que>tion, oorresponding to the manifest content ofa dream; in the middle- ground i. a m"",,, of highly symbolic, but often pu""ling, material, """ttered about like Ihe "age-propenies ofa dramalk
producer with an obo"";onal neufOS;', and COITesponding 10 Ihe dream-symbol .
