Stories we tell ourselves
Subtitle: "dream life" and "seeing things"
By: Michelle Herman
Series: Sightline books; Iowa series in literary nonfiction; Sightline books
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9781609381530
Subjects: Dreams; Visual perception
Description: "The two thought-provoking, extended essays that make up Stories We Tell Ourselves draw from the author's richly diverse experiences and history, taking the reader on a deeply pleasurable walk to several unexpectedly profound destinations. A steady accumulation of fascinating science, psychoanalytic theory, and cultural history--ranging as far and wide as neuro-ophthalmology, ancient dream interpretation, and the essential differences between Jung and Freud--is smoothly intermixed with vivid anecdotes, entertaining digressions, and a disarming willingness to risk everything in the course of a revealing personal narrative." -- Publisher's website.