"Dreams are as black as death." - Theodor W. Adorno. Adorno was
fascinated by his dreams and wrote them down throughout his life.
He envisaged publishing a collection of them although in the event
no more than a few appeared in his lifetime. "Dream Notes" offers a
selection of Adornos writings on dreams that span the last
twenty-five years of his life. Readers of Adorno who are accustomed
to high-powered reflections on philosophy, music and culture may
well find them disconcerting: they provide an amazingly frank and
uninhibited account of his inner desires, guilt feelings and
anxieties.Brothel scenes, torture and executions figure
prominently. They are presented straightforwardly, at face value.
No attempt is made to interpret them, to relate them to the events
of his life, to psychoanalyse them, or to establish any connections
with the principal themes of his philosophy. Are they fiction,
autobiography or an attempt to capture a pre-rational, quasi-mythic
state of consciousness? No clear answer can be given. Taken
together they provide a highly consistent picture of a dimension of
experience that is normally ignored, one that rounds out and
deepens our knowledge of Adorno while retaining something of the
enigmatic quality that energized his own thought.
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