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The Unconscious : A Cultural History from Hippocrates to Philip K. Dick and Beyond.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Melechi, Antonio
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2026.
Subjects:
Subconsciousness.
Inconscient.
unconscious.
Mind & Body.
PHILOSOPHY.
History.
SCIENCE.
PSYCHOLOGY.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Prologue: The Mirror and the Blindfold
  • 1: Night School: The Philosophy of Dreams
  • Hippocrates, On Regimen (400 BC)
  • Artemidorus, Oneirocritica (2nd Century AD)
  • Synesius of Cyrene, Concerning Dreams (ca. 405 AD)
  • St. Augustine, Confessions (397-400 AD)
  • Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)
  • Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia (1803)
  • Roger Ekirch, At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime (2005)
  • Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions (1841)
  • Hervey de Saint-Denys, Dreams and How to Guide Them (1867)
  • Edward B. Tylor, Primitive Culture (1871)
  • Frances Power Cobbe, "Dreams as Illustrations of Involuntary Cerebration" (1872)
  • Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human (1878)
  • William Dean Howells, True, I Talk of Dreams (1895)
  • James Sully, "The Dream as a Revelation" (1893)
  • Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)
  • Havelock Ellis, The World of Dreams (1911)
  • Henri Bergson, Dreams (1914)
  • Mary Arnold-Forster, Studies in Dreams (1921)
  • Calvin Hall, "What People Dream About" (1951)
  • William C. Dement, Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep (1974)
  • J. Allan Hobson, Dream Life (2011)
  • Francis Crick and Graeme Mitchison, "Function of Dream Sleep" (1983)
  • Michel Jouvet, The Paradox of Sleep (1999)
  • David Foulkes, Children's Dreaming and the Development of Consciousness (1999)
  • Darian Leader, Why Can't We Sleep? (2019)
  • 2: Castles of Indolence: The Borderlands of Sleep
  • Michel Montaigne, "On Some Verses of Virgil" (1580)
  • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605)
  • Ralph Cudworth, A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731)
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker (1782)
  • William Hazlitt, "On Dreams" (1826)
  • William Godwin, Thoughts on Man (1831)
  • Jacques-Joseph Moreau, Hashish and Mental Illness (1845)
  • Pierre Janet, The Mental State of Hystericals (1892)
  • Marie de Manaciene, Sleep: Its Physiology, Pathology, Hygiene, and Psychology (1897)
  • Theodate L. Smith, "The Psychology of Day Dreams" (1904)
  • Herbert Silberer, Report on a Method of Eliciting and Observing Certain Symbolic-Hallucination Phenomena (1909)
  • AndrĂ© Breton, What Is Surrealism? (1934)
  • E. M. Cioran, On the Heights of Despair (1934)
  • Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory (1947)
  • James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1939)
  • William Grey Walter, The Living Brain (1953)
  • Louis J. West et al., "The Psychosis of Sleep Deprivation" (1962)
  • Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope (1959)
  • Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Reverie (1960)
  • 3: Operation Trance: From Mesmerism to Mind Control
  • Robert Darnton, Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France (1968)
  • George Makari, Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind (2015)
  • Francois Regourd, "Mesmerism in Saint-Domingue" (2008)
  • Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling, Theory of Pneumatology (1808)