ABSTRACT
For our memories and dreams are not only stories we tell ourselves. They also impel us to act. This is particularly evident in adolescence when the pressure to become grown up makes both sexes, more than ever, seek to act on their memories and dreams to realise or assuage the fears and desires impelling them. Dissociating from our agency in this matter, however, we often experience the fears and desires expressed in our memories and dreams as telling us, rather than us as telling them. Feminism, about which author have talked throughout this book, goes further. It seeks to bring about improvement and change in women’s and men’s social as well as personal experience. It seeks to bring about a world in which both sexes might more readily act on and realise what is best in their dreams without being beguiled by false promises.
