ing ultimately to an image of coherency and orderliness which it constructs by linguistic "turns" alone' . White confirms that 'One can produce an imaginary discourse about real events that may not be less "true" for being imaginary' .
             D. M. Thomas acknowledges his deliberate use of Freud's case histories and psychoanalytic theories in his writing of The White Hotel. The most important of the case histories in relation to the novel are two case histories, 'Wolf Man' and 'Dora'. In this sense, Thomas reconstructed imaginatively The White Hotel, writing an imaginary work, by using Freud's case histories and theories in a fictitious way. In this connection, the creative force of the false imaginary document, The White Hotel, suggests some meaningful and thoughtful insight particularly to the readers who have interest in psychoanalysis, which is the literary and critical significance of the 'false imaginary document'.
             In the postmodern view of narrative theory, the standard of The White Hotel could be regarded as a "false document" in the form of an 'imaginary' narrative. In this essay, I will examine this 'imaginary' narrative of the false document, The White Hotel, to look how powerfully the creative force of the narrative can work and operate in the novel. The White Hotel is a poetic narrative about our life, which proves not to be less "true" for being imaginary. My intention is to reveal powerful visionary forces of the imaginary narrative that goes beyond the limitations of such scientific discourses as Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic narrative by criticising their scientific theory with the creative force of the false document.
             II. The Imaginary World of Dream and Hallucination.
             The 'Gastein Journal' is the second part of The White Hotel. The 'Gastein Journal' is a diary written by the heroine, Lisa. The ...