Dream Interpreters in Exile: Joseph, Daniel, and Sigmund (Solomon)

This paper suggests that The Interpretation of Dreams contains some of Freud's most provocative, far-reaching, and powerful psychoanalytic insights regarding futurity, intersubjective communication, and the relationship between the dream, the dreamer, and the world. By focusing on the specific status and function of the dream (as opposed to all other psychic actions), this paper explores how and why the singular language of dreams-and the very possibility of dream interpretation-provide a specifically psychoanalytic model of translation. The essay examines the specific status of the dream by appealing to a selection of important and influential philosophical readings of Freud's text

Making - or Not Making - Sense of Dreams / Trouver - ou non - un sens au rêve, 2024

Dreams frighten and attract us because of their ›otherness‹, their manifold deviations from the world we know when we are awake. One of the most consistently used techniques of coming to terms with this otherness has been the attempt to ›make sense‹ of dreams, to consider and portray them as messages which can and have to be deciphered. On the other hand (and much more rarely), dreams have been considered as a welcome source of entertainment, or as a key instrument to expand the limitations of a rational and conventional world view. Our book analyses aspects of this dialectic in factual dream reports and in fictional representations of the dream in literature, film, music, and painting. Examples are taken from a great variety of cultures and historical periods. Their authors and artists include: Adorno, Agualusa, Andreas-Salomé, Apollinaire, Artmann, Beckmann, Benjamin, Breton, Carroll, Carter, Diderot, Droste-Hülshoff, Flaubert, Goethe, Gondry, Grandville, Ji Yun, Johannot, Kafka, Keller, Klinger, Kubin, Li Gongzuo, Liu E, Ma Jian, Meyrink, Michaux, Minnelli, Montaigne, Mora, Ofenbauer, Okri, Oppenheim, Plath, Proust, Pushkin, Rousseau, Scho¬pen¬hauer, Scott, Seghers, Sorel, Sōseki, Wagner, Walser, Wang Jian, Weiner, Wu Jianren, Yuan Mei, Zschokke, and many others.

Writing the Dream / Écrire le rêve. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle and Manfred Engel (Cultural Dream Studies; 1), 2017

Writing a factual or fictional dream is a difficult task as its ›otherness‹ will challenge all of our accustomed modes of narration. So the existence of established cultural and textual patterns is a welcome help. This collection of essays describes these patterns, their historical and individual modifications and their relation to the dream-discourse in selected case studies and general considerations. The scope of the contributions ranges geographically from the Near East and Europe to Northern America, Africa, China and Japan and historically from Antiquity to the present, including studies on the Old Testament, the Babylonian Talmud, Dante, Tang Xianzu, La Fontaine, Cáo Xuěqín, Bräker, Jean Paul, Manzoni, Heine, Keller, Freud, Sōseki, Schnitzler, McCay, Éluard, Bâ, Sassine, Fantouré, Kipphardt, Bächler, Sarris, Gaiman and others.

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Typologizing the Dream / Le rêve du point de vue typologique, 2022

There is nothing like a firmly established typology of dreams – simply because the taxonomies on which existing typologies are based vary widely: They can be oneirocritical, thematic, or based on dreaming characters or their responses, on narratological functions, etc. The essays in this volume will discuss a broad range of dream types, with a special focus on nightmares and erotic, funny, indigenous and children’s dreams. Examples are taken from a great variety of cultures and historical periods. Their authors and artists include: Akinari, Barrie, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Black Elk, Buñuel, Burroughs, W. Busch, Calvino, Cantilo, Cao Xueqin, Cardano, Carroll, Coogler, Corkran, Cortázar, Crébillon fils, Dalí, Eco, Ende, Foer, Fuseli, Garnier, Gatore, Grévin, Grünbein, Guo Moruo, Hauptmann, Hawthorne, Hebbel, Heine, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Huysmans, Ilboudo, Ilibagiza, Kafka, F. Lang, Leiris, Li Yu, Malerba, Mizoguchi, Morgenstern, Mussorgsky, Nodier, Nolan, Okopenko, Pushkin, Radcliffe, Rimbaud, Robison, Schafer, Schiller, Schnitzler, Schwarz-Bart, P.B. Shelley, Soqluman, Storm, Szittya, Tamapima, Tchaikovsky, D.M. Thomas, Tristan L’Hermite, Valenzuela, Vava, Yourcenar, Yu Dafu, and many others. Areas of interest: Cultural, literary and medial history of the dream; dreams in Literature; dreams in film; theory of the dream; the nightmare; dream in the visual arts; dreams in computer games / video games; dream reports.

The novel "The Stream of Dreams" is one of the most accomplished novels by the Kukës writer, Petrit Palushi. The journey in the pages of this novel is difficult, the reader inadvertently enters the flow of the story but at the same time becomes part of the development of events. The aesthetic experience transcends the limits of what you can feel while reading traditional prose, The stream takes in its flow, and introduces you to its magic and mystery. Magic and mystery, this is what the author has achieved in this work. Dream and Streams are the two provocateurs who disturb the lives of the inhabitants, who have considered staying and sleeping at night in Stream and continue to consider them taboo, where no one has dared to break this taboo. What happened to the inhabitants of Stream is shrouded in mystery, and it has been present for hundreds of years. The novel begins and ends with the Stream, and serves as the "path" on which all events flow. "The novel 'The Stream of Dreams' is a nightmare between being and non-being, between dream and reality, a three-dimensional universe between life, death and heaven." The toponymy of Stream, is the main bed on which the whole structure of the novel rises. We find the toponym for the streams with different names, such as: "Black Stream", "Stream of Sheeps", "Bad Stream", but surprisingly, none of the streams is so intriguing for the inhabitants, who as seen from the names, in any toponym they have not considered any good stream, but "Stream of Dreams" seems to be the most nightmarish stream for them, it is the magic node that hides the mystery of dreams. The term toponym is derived from the Greek topos, meaning "region", onoma-pronoun. Exactly The Stream of Dreams is not just a toponym, the geographical name, but also marks an inhabited area, The Stream of Dreams, which is located in the municipality of Surroit, in Kukës. Toponymy has become the metaphor of the novel. The stream of Dreams, as a toponym, plays the role of another vital dimension, which in the novel passes to another literary plane, of symbolism, of the duality of the real and the unreal in the human consciousness. Real and unreal have created the myth, wearing it in a cloak that hides the mystery of the creation of this symbolic, magic and religion that are related to the impact that the Stream of Dreams has on the lives of residents who have lived with the Stream for hundreds of years. , but 1 who have never dared to challenge this coexistence, where in the middle is the code of this coexistence, each in his own work. Myth, has a crib and a field of action. Myths, (et (Gr. Mythos-tale). A story that allegorically presents an event of historical significance or a natural phenomenon. The myths about gods and heroes reflected the primitive ideas of people about the world around them, the first attempts to explain the incomprehensible phenomena of nature and society are noticed. Myths are closely related to faith, religion mit Mythological subjects are widely used by writers, poets, painters, composers. 2 The stream in the consciousness of the inhabitants has become symbolic of their life, of life and death, of good and evil, all that human life offers. Precisely the symbolism of life, the everyday human are the artistic scope in this novel. All the life of the inhabitants near this Stream, whose it has served and as the toponym of the village, has passed in its course. What makes Stream of Dreams special, is that anyone who will sleep next to it, will see dreams, which convey good or bad messages, messages come from a world of another dimension. The novel "Tge Stream of Dreams" refers to a stream that is a real toponym, and through this toponym the author has managed to organize a literary text, between the real and the unreal. The creek has been used as a symbol, and such instances of symbolic use of toponyms exist in modern literature. The symbolism of the novel reveals to the reader the mystery of the stream, where Shpendi, the main character tries to reveal this mystery, the mystery of the dream that everyone who sleeps near this stream sees. The bird travels on the border between the real and the unreal, between dream and truth. The stream, raised by the inhabitants on the pedestal of the myth, but since the novel, Palushi tries to realize its demystification, to bring it as close as possible to the reader, and as close as possible to the inhabitants. To bring it closer to the demystified inhabitants, the author uses Shpend. Sleeping near the Stream of Dreams, you will inevitably have dreams, sad or joyful dreams. The bird is the reference point of the development of events, at the same time it undertakes the heavy burden to demystify the myth of the stream, reducing it to the plane of life of everyday human life.

Poligrafi, 2023

Historizing the Dream / Le rêve du point de vue historique. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle and Manfred Engel (Cultural Dream Studies; 3), 2019

The essays in this volume trace the development of dream cultures through time both in synchronic and diachronic case studies. The scope of the contributions ranges geographically from New Zealand and China, over India, Mesopotamia, and Africa, to diverse European countries, and historically from Antiquity to the present. The volume covers various media and disciplines, such as literature, historiography, philosophy, painting, film, and TV series, and includes studies on Addison, Ammianus Marcellinus, Bachmann, Bembo, Bhāsa, Blake, Buñuel, Cáo Xuěqín, Chaucer, Dalí, De Quincey, Deren, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, van den Eeckhout, Eich, Flaubert, Grace-Smith, E.W. Happel, Herodotus, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Joyce, Kālidāsa, Keller, Kleinschroth, Kouka, Kourouma, Lamkos, Langfus, Levi, Lessing, M.G. Lewis, C.F. Meyer, Michaux, Moreau de Tours, Nerval, Nietzsche, Petrarch, Plato, Subandhu, Tacitus, Tang Xianzu, Tiepolo, Tolstoy, Wieland, and others.