Selfthought

• self-taught: Joyce himself, though a graduate of University College Dublin, was perceived as an autodididact. Virginia Woolf called Ulysses "the book of a self-taught working man."
• self-thought: the case with HCE's dream, where the border between objectuve reality and fanatasy is never well-delineated. The book may be called solipsistic, in that it implies the external world and other minds cannot be known, and might not exist outside the mind.