The Politics of the Dreamscape

Seth Rogoff (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

IX, 292 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-74795-4 (ISBN)

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This book traces the intersection of dreams and power in order to analyze the complex ways representations of dreams and paradigms of dream interpretation reinforce and challenge authoritarian, hierarchical structures. The book puts forward the concept of the dreamscape as a pre-representational space that contains anarchistic attributes, including its instability or chaotic nature and the lack of a stable or core selfhood and identity in its subjects. The book situates this concept of the dreamscape through an analysis of the Daoist notions of the "transformation of things" and hundun (chaos) and the biblical concept of tehom (the deep). Using this conceptual framework, this book analyzes paradigmatic moments of dream interpretation along a spectrum from radical, anarchist assertions of the primal dreamscape to authoritarian dream-texts that seek to reify identity, define and establish hierarchy, and support coercive relationships between unequal subjects. The book's key figures include William Blake, Robert Frost, Jacob and Joseph from Genesis, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Jean Rhys, Franz Kafka, and the neurobiologist J. Allan Hobson

lt;p>Seth Rogoff is a novelist and a scholar of literary and cultural analysis. He is the author of the novels First, the Raven: a Preface and Thin Rising Vapors. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam's Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) and is currently a lecturer in English and history at the University of Southern Maine and a member of the academic studies faculty at Maine College of Art.

1.Introduction.- 2.Dreams and Power.- 3.Dreams and Power between Jacob and Joseph, a Speculative Interpretation.- 4. Freud's Conquest of the Dreamscape.- 5.Dream-Texts Integrating and Disintegrating.- 6. Dreams and Power in Kafka's The Castle .-7.J. Allan Hobson's Dreamstage in Context.-8.Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	27.08.2021
Zusatzinfo	IX, 292 p. 10 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Schlagworte	Anarchism • Biblical Studies • Dreams • Literary modernism • Neurohumanities
ISBN-10	3-030-74795-6 / 3030747956
ISBN-13	978-3-030-74795-4 / 9783030747954
Zustand	Neuware