The politics of the dreamscape / Seth Rogoff.
2021
BF1091 .R64 2021eb
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Title
The politics of the dreamscape / Seth Rogoff.
Author
Rogoff, Seth, 1976-
ISBN
9783030747961 (electronic bk.)
3030747964 (electronic bk.)
3030747956
9783030747954
3030747964 (electronic bk.)
3030747956
9783030747954
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 292 pages : illustrations)
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10.1007/978-3-030-74796-1 doi
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BF1091 .R64 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
154.6/3
Summary
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 Band 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 books 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 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 (2017) and Thin Rising Vapors (2018). He earned his Ph. D. from the University of Amsterdams Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), The Netherlands, and is currently a lecturer in history and English at the University of Southern Maine, USA, and a member of the MFA faculty at Maine College of Art.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
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"
Dreams and Power Between Jacob and Joseph, a Speculative Interpretation
Freud's Conquest of the Dreamscape: Dynamics of Power in The Interpretation of Dreams and Dora
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
Dreams and Power in Kafka's The Castle
J. Allen Hobson's Dreamstage in context
Conclusion.
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"
Dreams and Power Between Jacob and Joseph, a Speculative Interpretation
Freud's Conquest of the Dreamscape: Dynamics of Power in The Interpretation of Dreams and Dora
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
Dreams and Power in Kafka's The Castle
J. Allen Hobson's Dreamstage in context
Conclusion.