In this essay, we have aimed at building a few connections between the psychoanalytical conception of the infantile and the utopian universe. Based on Jam Švankmajer’s cinematographic version of Alice in Wonderland - which offers a perspective of Lewis Carroll’s universe of Alice that comes close to Freud’s concept of dreams and child’s play - we tried to find connections between the infantile and utopia by relating Švankmajer’s “Wonderland” to Morus’ island of Utopia to show how the infantile allows to access utopian constructions by a cut or hole in the word-images of the infantile, as a demand to create, through play, a coastline that gives us access to islands, territories that resist the literality of the instituted shapes of reality, such as utopia does.
Key words:
Infantile; utopia; psychoanalysis; writing; play
