What do dreams manage to say-or indeed, show-about human experience
that is not legible otherwise? Can the disclosure of our dream-life
be understood as a form of political avowal? To what does a dream
attest? And to whom? Blending psychoanalytic theory with the work
of such political thinkers as Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault,
Sharon Sliwinski explores how the disclosure of dream-life
represents a special kind of communicative gesture-a form of
unconscious thinking that can serve as a potent brand of political
intervention and a means for resisting sovereign power. Each
chapter centers on a specific dream plucked from the historical
record, slowly unwinding the significance of this extraordinary
disclosure. From Wilfred Owen and Lee Miller to Frantz Fanon and
Nelson Mandela, Sliwinski shows how each of these figures grappled
with dream-life as a means to conjure up the courage to speak about
dark times. Here dreaming is defined as an integral political
exercise-a vehicle for otherwise unthinkable thoughts and a
wellspring for the freedom of expression. Dreaming in Dark Times
defends the idea that dream-life matters-that attending to this
thought-landscape is vital to the life of the individual but also
vital to our shared social and political worlds.
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