Reading path
Dreamwork
The literature of the interior, with Freud at its hinge. Dreamwork was his name for what the unconscious does in sleep, the condensing and displacing that turns wish into image. Every writer on this path takes that labour as their subject. Some came before the science had a name for it, mapping the divided self by instinct. Some came after, using the novel to chart what the new science could only diagram. The mind is a country. These are its cartographers.
In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
The route
- 1. ConfessionsSaint Augustine, 400 CE
- 2. The Sickness Unto DeathSøren Kierkegaard, 1849
- 3. Notes From the UndergroundFyodor Dostoevsky, 1864
- 4. The Gay ScienceFriedrich Nietzsche, 1882
- 5. The Death of Ivan IlyichLeo Tolstoy, 1886
- 6. The Principles of PsychologyWilliam James, 1890
- 7. The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund Freud, 1899
- 8. The Varieties of Religious ExperienceWilliam James, 1902
- 9. Under Western EyesJoseph Conrad, 1911
- 10. UlyssesJames Joyce, 1922
- 11. Mrs DallowayVirginia Woolf, 1925
- 12. The TrialFranz Kafka, 1925
- 13. SteppenwolfHermann Hesse, 1927
- 14. Man's Search for MeaningViktor Frankl, 1946
- 15. The Divided SelfR.D. Laing, 1960
- 16. Memories, Dreams, ReflectionsCarl Jung, 1963
- 17. The Bell JarSylvia Plath, 1963
- 18. Man and His SymbolsCarl Jung, 1964
- 19. Confessions of ZenoItalo Svevo, 1923
- 20. The Golden NotebookDoris May Lessing, 1962
- 21. I'm Not StillerMax Frisch, 1954
- 22. Portnoy's ComplaintPhilip Roth, 1969
- 23. The Confusions of Young TörlessRobert Musil, 1906
- 24. The ImmoralistAndré Gide, 1902
- 25. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified SinnerJames Hogg, 1824
- 26. Civilization and Its DiscontentsSigmund Freud, 1930
- 27. The Blind OwlṢādiq Hidāyat, 1937
- 28. By Night in ChileRoberto Bolaño, 2000
- 29. Of Our Spiritual StrivingsW.E.B. Du Bois, 1903
- 30. Darkness VisibleWilliam Styron, 1990
- 31. The Mystery Of Edwin DroodCharles Dickens, 1870
- 32. The Kreutzer SonataLeo Tolstoy, 1889
- 33. Pierre et JeanGuy de Maupassant, 1888
- 34. The VegetarianHan Kang, 2007
- 35. MarsFritz Zorn, 1977
- 36. Faces In The WaterJanet Frame, 1961
- 37. Fieldwork In Ukrainian SexOksana Zabuzhko, 1996