EN 4113 Lecture 20: March 10 Lecture
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In the process, it restores the dynamic structure of dialects (16: the poet of witness is politically subordinate to the dominant culture. The legal truth is very different from what might be actual truth. The legal frame is somewhat limited in accommodating that an event exists: uses freud"s analysis of a father"s dream. Sleeps in the room right beside his dead son. Hears his son saying father, can"t you see that i"m burning? when he awakes, he sees the flames and puts them out early enough so that there is minimal damage (only burnt sheets, did not touch the body). In freud"s terms, the waking to see the fire is secondary to waking to see the child who is actually dead. Wanting to forget in order to get out of this trauma. His dream is both the wish that his son is still alive, and the nightmare that his son is dead.