ABSTRACT
The potential of the translucent, reflexive image of water as the writer's medium looked at in the last chapter can also be found in the reflexive nature of the individual's thoughts as they drift off into sleep. Derek Attridge deconstructs the equation of women's language with endless flow and non-observance of the rules of language, seeing Joyce instead as challenging rigid gender boundaries. Going to sleep normally begins with lying down in bed. Freud, and the analysis of dreams before Freud, recognized the influence of the position of the sleeping body on the dream. The body in Proust is very much a gateway into such a world of fantasy. If Molly's thinking offers no self-recrimination and if there is no narratorial counterpoint from which to judge what she is saying, what she says nevertheless often gets caught up in itself: why arent all men like that thered be some consolation for a woman.
