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The Politics of the Dreamscape (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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The Politics of the Dreamscape (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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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"
and 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 book's 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
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