ABSTRACT
In the Book of Disquiet, dreams are probably the most frequent topic approached by Bernardo Soares in reference to anything and everything. At the same time, the notion of dreaming must be seen as one of the most elusive of the entire text. This chapter advances the notion that, besides other functions, dreams are often coupled with the figures of women, themselves more often than not also dreams or purely fantastic apparitions or invocations. The deployment of dreams must also be related to the politics of the Book of Disquiet, which in no way should be simply confused with whatever political opinions Pessoa might have held himself. In a pioneering essay from 1996, 'Ogesto e nao as maos', Isabel Allegro de Magalhaes inaugurated what can be considered a textually based and theoretically informed analysis of the representation of women in the works of Pessoa.
