"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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