The Politics of the Dreamscape

Seth Rogoff

ISBN 10: 3030747980 / ISBN 13: 9783030747985

Published by Springer, 2022

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The Politics of the Dreamscape | Seth Rogoff | Taschenbuch | ix | Englisch | 2022 | Springer | EAN 9783030747985 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Politics of the Dreamscape
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030747980
• ISBN 13: 9783030747985
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 17D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 396 grams
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Synopsis

This book traces the intersection of dreams and power in order to analyze the complex ways representations of dreams and paradigms of dream interpretation reinforce and challenge authoritarian, hierarchical structures. The book puts forward the concept of the dreamscape as a pre-representational space that contains anarchistic attributes, including its instability or chaotic nature and the lack of a stable or core selfhood and identity in its subjects. The book situates this concept of the dreamscape through an analysis of the Daoist notions of the “transformation of things” and hundun (chaos) and the biblical concept of tehom (the deep). Using this conceptual framework, this book analyzes paradigmatic moments of dream interpretation along a spectrum from radical, anarchist assertions of the primal dreamscape to authoritarian dream-texts that seek to reify identity, define and establish hierarchy, and support coercive relationships between unequal subjects. The book’s key figures include William Blake, Robert Frost, Jacob and Joseph from Genesis, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Jean Rhys, Franz Kafka, and the neurobiologist J. Allan Hobson

About the Author

Seth Rogoff is a novelist and a scholar of literary and cultural analysis. He is the author of the novels First, the Raven: a Preface (2017) and Thin Rising Vapors (2018). He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam’s Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), The Netherlands, and is currently a lecturer in history and English at the University of Southern Maine, USA, and a member of the MFA faculty at Maine College of Art.