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Stories We Tell Ourselves - Dream Life and ""Seeing Things (Paperback)
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Stories We Tell Ourselves - Dream Life and ""Seeing Things (Paperback)
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The two thought-provoking, extended essays that make up Stories We
Tell Ourselves draw from the author's richly diverse experiences
and history, taking the reader on a deeply pleasurable walk to
several unexpectedly profound destinations. A steady accumulation
of fascinating science, psychoanalytic theory, and cultural
history-ranging as far and wide as neuro-ophthalmology, ancient
dream interpretation, and the essential differences between Jung
and Freud-is smoothly intermixed with vivid anecdotes, entertaining
digressions, and a disarming willingness to risk everything in the
course of a revealing personal narrative. "Dream Life" plumbs the
depth of dreams-conceptually, biologically, and as the nursery of
our most meaningful metaphors-as it considers dreams and dreaming
every whichway: from the haruspicy of the Roman Empire to
contemporary sleep and dream science, from the way birds dream to
the way babies do, from our longing to tell them to the reasons we
wish other people wouldn't. "Seeing Things" recounts a journey of
mother and daughter-a Holmes-and-Watson pair intrepidly working
their way through the mysteries of a disorder known as Alice in
Wonderland Syndrome-even as it restlessly detours into the world
beyond the looking glass of the unconscious itself. In essays that
constantly offer layers of surprises and ever-deeper insights, the
author turns a powerful lens on the relationships that make up a
family, on expertise and unsatisfying diagnoses, on science and art
and the pleasures of contemplation and inquiry-and on our fears,
regrets, hopes, and (of course) dreams.
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Imprint: |
University of Iowa Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2013 |
First published: |
March 2013 |
Authors: |
Michelle Herman
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Dimensions: |
231 x 145 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
164 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-60938-153-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Psychology >
General
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LSN: |
1-60938-153-X |
Barcode: |
9781609381530 |
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