GERM 301 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Arthur Schnitzler, Vehmic Court, Dream Story
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The dream is incoherent; it reconciles, without hesitation, the worst contradictions; it admits impossibilities; it disregards the authoritative knowledge of the waking state, and it shows us as ethically and morally obtuse. (sigmund freud, 1. describe the general atmosphere of schnitzler"s fin-de-si cle vienna. Some examples: international flair, different cultures: polish, jewish. Carnival and parties: flirtatious, easy-going, erotic, titillating not so secure (ch. Old fashioned: gas-lamps, horse carriages, messengers, but some new technologies as well: telephones. Masked ball at carnival season: have become part of bourgeois social life as well (3ff. Masks = anonymity, freedom to be flirtatious (dominoes) and/or crude (polish man) Spices up (bourgeois) marriage (fridolin and albertine) Protects moral (double-)standards (safely let off steam") Blindfold (nachtigall): protects social double standard (35) Masked figures in the red robes of vehmic court judges* (38) Masks = personalities to take on: outfitter (38) Fridolin"s monk"s costume = mask of celibacy (40)
