Philosophy of dreams /
Türcke, Christoph.
New Haven : Yale University Press,
[2013]
In this reconstruction of human consciousness from the Stone Age through modern technology, Türcke argues that both civilization and mental processes are the results of a compulsion to repeat early traumas, one to which hallucination, imagination, mind, spirit, and God all developed in response. He further argues that the new global forces of distraction produce a specific kind of stress that breaks down the barriers between dreams and waking consciousness.
Originally published in German as: Philosophie des Traums. München : C.H. Beck, 2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dreams. The mental and the physical ; Hallucination ; Symbol and allegory ; Reversal ; Sacrifice ; Representation ; Mental space ; Dreamtime ; Gilgamesh ; Wild interpretation -- Drives. The principle of constancy ; Experience ; Pathways ; Stimulus flight ; Memory ; Loosening the drives ; The psychic "apparatus" ; The genesis of ideals ; Excess ; Eros ; Death drive ; Incest ; Mysticism of the newborn ; Myths of origin -- Words. The oath ; Translating nature's convulsions ; Ritual acoustics ; Primal words ; "Fort--da" ; Nominalism-realism ; Speech acts ; The subjection of the name ; The dreamtime of language ; Universal grammar and categories ; Psychoanalytic structuralism ; The talking cure.
In this reconstruction of human consciousness from the Stone Age through modern technology, Türcke argues that both civilization and mental processes are the results of a compulsion to repeat early traumas, one to which hallucination, imagination, mind, spirit, and God all developed in response. He further argues that the new global forces of distraction produce a specific kind of stress that breaks down the barriers between dreams and waking consciousness.
Dreams
Dreams
Dream interpretation.