ABSTRACT
If the soul and the subconscious are meant to represent a person's essence, in both cases there is a doubling up of the person. In order to understand the thought processes of the characters it is necessary to piece together the inner debates they are having and are continuing from actual conversations. This chapter looks firstly at the subconscious in Proust and argues that what is taking place is the child Narrator's initiation into the moral order via the internalization of the voices of others. It focuses on the retellings of the tale: on the intertextual dialogue in play; the great-aunt's readings; the characters' differing versions; Marcel's internalization of the message when, alone with the picture images, he recalls and retells himself the story; the tale as archetype. The chapter also looks at Stephen's anthropomorphic projections in 'Proteus' as a lead into Stephen's often difficult-to-follow interior monologue.
