Philosophy of dreams / / Christoph Türcke ; translated by Susan H. Gillespie

• Autore: Türcke Christoph
• Pubblicazione: New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Disciplina: 154.6/3
• Soggetto topico: Dreams - Philosophy; Dreams - Psychological aspects; Dream interpretation
• Altri autori: GillespieSusan H
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Foreword: The Early Stone Age in Us -- 1. Dreams -- 2. Drives -- 3. Words -- Afterword: High-Tech Dreamtime -- Notes -- Index of Proper Names
• Sommario/riassunto: Why has humankind developed so differently from other animals? How and why did language, culture, religion, and the arts come into being? In this wide-ranging and ambitious essay, Christoph Türcke offers a new answer to these timeworn questions by scrutinizing the phenomenon of the dream, using it as a psychic fossil connecting us with our Stone Age ancestors. Provocatively, he 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. Until the beginning of the modern era, repetition was synonymous with de-escalation and calming down. Then, automatic machinery gave rise to a new type of repetition, whose effects are permanent alarm and distraction. The new global forces of distraction, Türcke argues, are producing a specific kind of stress that breaks down the barriers between dreams and waking consciousness. Türcke's essay ends with a sobering indictment of this psychic deregulation and the social and economic deregulations that have accompanied it.
• Titolo autorizzato: Philosophy of dreams
• ISBN: 9780300199123; 0300199120
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910964058903321
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