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Philosophy of Dreams (Hardcover)
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Philosophy of Dreams (Hardcover)
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A sweeping reconstruction of human consciousness and its breakdown,
from the Stone Age through modern technology Why has humankind
developed so differently from other animals? How and why did
language, culture, religion, and the arts come into being? In this
wide-ranging and ambitious essay, Christoph Turcke offers a new
answer to these timeworn questions by scrutinizing the phenomenon
of the dream, using it as a psychic fossil connecting us with our
Stone Age ancestors. Provocatively, he argues that both
civilization and mental processes are the results of a compulsion
to repeat early traumas, one to which hallucination, imagination,
mind, spirit, and God all developed in response. Until the
beginning of the modern era, repetition was synonymous with
de-escalation and calming down. Then, automatic machinery gave rise
to a new type of repetition, whose effects are permanent alarm and
distraction. The new global forces of distraction, Turcke argues,
are producing a specific kind of stress that breaks down the
barriers between dreams and waking consciousness. Turcke's essay
ends with a sobering indictment of this psychic deregulation and
the social and economic deregulations that have accompanied it.
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