Preface : From Lewis Carroll to the Stoics

Lewis Carroll's body of work has everything to please today's readers: books for children, especially young girls; words splendidly strange and esoteric; grids, codings and decodings and photos; a rich psychoanalytic content, a specimen of formalization of logic and linguistic. And beyond the immediate enjoyment there's something more, a of sense and of non-sense, a chaos-cosmos. But the marriage of language and of the unconscious has already been tied together and celebrated in many ways we must interrogate precisely the domain of Lewis Carroll's work, with what was reunited and celebrated in his domain, thanks to him.