Sleeping and Dreaming

by Monem, Nadine Kathe

• ISBN13: 9781906155056
• ISBN10: 1906155054
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-08
• Publisher: Black Dog Pub Ltd

Summary

Sleeping and Dreaming, which accompanies the exhibition of the same name at Wellcome Collection and the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, takes a fresh look at the apparently simple questions of why humans need to sleep and dream, and what happens to our brain and body during sleep.These fascinating ideas are explored by international experts from backgrounds as varied as neuroscience, linguistics, psychoanalysis, philosophy and fiction writing; and from organizations including the Centre for Sleep Science at the University of Regensburg, the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt, and the Royal School of Medicine in London.Illustrated by a stunning variety of visual material, from Luis Bu??uela??s Un Chien Andalou, to sculpture by Ron Mueck and Katharina Fritsch, to photographs documenting US DJ Peter Trippa??s 1959 no-sleep marathon, these essays cover subjects such as the relationship between dream frequency and memory, the interpretation of dreams, and the causes and effects of sleep deprivation.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 19
Without Sleeping, There is No Waking: an Introduction to Sleep in Modern Society	p. 27
Sleep as a Temporal Bridge: on the Phenomenology of the Sleeping Consciousness	p. 47
The Brain Never Sleeps: how Sleep Improves our Memory	p. 63
Collapse in the Night: Processing Traumatic Dream Experiences	p. 85
Dreams in Contemporary Psychoanalysis	p. 101
Dream Worlds of the Modern Era: Philosophical Dream Criticism and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion	p. 117
The Interpretation of Dreams and the Neurosciences	p. 137
No Sleep - Only Dreams	p. 161
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