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The politics of the dreamscape /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rogoff, Seth, 1976-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Subjects:
Dream interpretation > Political aspects.
Political psychology.
Political science > Philosophy.
Power (Social sciences)
Dreams.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Contents
  • 1: Introduction
  • Chuang Tzu's "Butterfly Dream"
  • Defining the Dreamscape
  • References
  • 2: Dreams and Power: Authoritarian Territory, Anarchistic Space in the Garden of Eden, William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job, and Robert Frost's "After Apple-Picking"
  • Introduction
  • An Origin Myth of the Dreamscape in Genesis 2-3
  • Anarchist Radicalism and Authoritarian Discourse in Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job
  • The Self, Lost and Regained, in Robert Frost's "After Apple-Picking"
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 3: Dreams and Power Between Jacob and Joseph, a Speculative Interpretation
  • Introduction
  • Joseph the Provider
  • Conflict in Canaan
  • Two Josephs
  • Dreaming Two Conceptions of Faith
  • Ladder and Night Wrestling: A Conclusion
  • References
  • 4: Freud's Conquest of the Dreamscape: Dynamics of Power in The Interpretation of Dreams and Dora
  • Introduction
  • The Dreamscape as Dark Continent
  • Power and Authority in the Dream of Irma's Injection
  • The Dream as Contested Space
  • Dreams and Power in Dora
  • The Triumphs and Limits of the Feminist Critiques of Dora
  • Dora's First Dream
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 5: Dream-Texts Integrating and Disintegrating: Philip Roth's Goodbye Columbus, Carl Jung's "Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy," and Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight
  • Introduction
  • The "Island Dream" in Roth's Goodbye, Columbus
  • Carl Jung's "Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy"
  • The "Exhibition Dream" and the Politics of Resistance in Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight
  • Good Morning, Midnight as Disintegrating Dream-Text
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 6: Dreams and Power in Kafka's The Castle
  • Introduction
  • Power in "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," and The Trial
  • Kafka and Dreams
  • The Castle
  • K.'s Dream
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 7: J. Allan Hobson's Dreamstage in Context
  • Introduction
  • The Science and Commodification of Sleep
  • Dream Science, Freud, and Power
  • Dreams, Technology, and Capitalism
  • Dreamstage
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 8: Conclusion
  • Index