On 'alices

• (Psycho-)analysis

• on Ulysses

• Alice: a reference to Lewis Carroll's Alice → Alys; by extension. treating young girls with sexually charged nightmares

Commentary

The psychoanalysts are portrayed as dirty old men (father figures) listening and thrilling to the sexual fantasies of young women, a reflection of both Dodgson/Carroll with his fascination with young girks and HCE's tendencies to voyeurism and incest.