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In her “Traumatic Awakenings” Caruth revisits competing interpretations of a patient’s dream (which perhaps signal Freud’s coming to doubt his earlier privileging of the ‘pleasure principle’). Briefly discuss the emphasis Caruth places on the possible purposes and significance of sleep, dream and awakening. What is suggested here regarding the psychic apparatus and trauma; the self and its well-being?