{"id":26,"date":"2003-11-17T10:41:55","date_gmt":"2003-11-17T14:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/2003\/11\/17\/no-exit\/"},"modified":"2003-11-17T10:41:55","modified_gmt":"2003-11-17T14:41:55","slug":"no-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/2003\/11\/17\/no-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"no exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a9'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When my alarm clock rang this morning, I was on a Houston freeway<br \/>\ntrying to determine which exit to take.&nbsp; Susanna once told me &#8221; no<br \/>\none speaks of a car in a dream as a symbol of the self, but that&#8217;s<br \/>\nbecause cars are recent<br \/>\ninventions, so you have to figure out how they&#8217;d relate,, and cars are<br \/>\nlike a second home, which makes them analogous to the archetypal symbol<br \/>\nof home as self.. and there&#8217;s the transition, movement element.&#8221;&nbsp;<br \/>\nSo, could the project of exiting the freeway signify looking for an end<br \/>\nto transition? <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">He wanted to walk beside it,<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Under the buttonwoods, beneath a moon nailed fast.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He wanted his heart to stop beating and his mind to rest<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In a permanent realization&#8230;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;  <\/span>(Stevens)<\/p>\n<p>But if that&#8217;s the project, why did the choice of exits seem to weigh so<br \/>\nheavily? In waking life, cars drive me up a wall. I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re<br \/>\nmy second home in dream life either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my alarm clock rang this morning, I was on a Houston freeway trying to determine which exit to take.&nbsp; Susanna once told me &#8221; no one speaks of a car in a dream as a symbol of the self, but that&#8217;s because cars are recent inventions, so you have to figure out how they&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1233,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1500],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}