Dreams and History: The Interpretation of Dreams from Ancient Greece to Modern Psychoanalysis

by Roper; LYNDAL

• ISBN13: 9781583912836
• ISBN10: 1583912835
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-01-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Dreams and Historycontains important new scholarship on Freud'sInterpretation of Dreams(1900) and subsequent psychoanalytical approaches from distinguished historians, psychoanalysts, historians of science and anthropologists. This collection celebrates and evaluates Freud's landmark intellectual production, whilst placing it in historical context. A modern view of psychoanalysis, it also discusses the controversial idea of the role of the external world on the shaping of unconscious mental contents. In highly accessible language it proceeds through a series of richly illustrated case studies, providing new source materials and debates about the causes, meanings and consequences of dreams, past and present: from Victorian anthropological exploration of ancient Greek dream sources to peasant interpretation of dream-life in communist Russia; from concepts of the dream in sixteenth-century England to visual images in nineteenth-century symbolist painting in France.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii
List of contributors	viii
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	1	(22)
Daniel Pick
Lyndal Roper
How Freud wrote and revised his Interpretation of Dreams: Conflicts around the subjective origins of the book of the century	23	(14)
Ilse Grubrich-Simitis
Arnold J. Pomerans
Dreams and desires in ancient and early Christian thought	37	(20)
Charles Stewart
Interpreting dreams in medieval literature	57	(34)
Hans-Jurgen Bachorski
Pamela E. Selwyn
Women's dreams in early modern England	91	(14)
Patricia Crawford
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and `The pains of sleep'	105	(20)
Jennifer Ford
The meaning of dream books	125	(12)
Maureen Perkins
Artists and the dream in nineteenth-century Paris: Towards a prehistory of surrealism	137	(22)
Stefanie Heraeus
Deborah Laurie Cohen
Policing dreams: History and the moral uses of the unconscious	159	(19)
Rhodri Hayward
The dreambook in Russia	178	(21)
Faith Wigzell
`A nice type of the English scientist': Tansley and Freud	199	(38)
Laura Cameron
John Forrester
Psychoanalysis, dreams, history: An interview with Hanna Segal	237	(10)
Daniel Pick
Lyndal Roper
A dream to dream	247	(6)
Edna O'shaughnessy
The shark behind the sofa: Recent developments in the theory of dreams	253	(18)
Susan Budd
Index	271