| Description |
x, 249 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Context: The Dream of Modernity -- 2. Archetext: The Texture of the Present -- 3. Text: Hermeneutics of the Dream-Life -- 4. Subtext: The Prehistory of the Ego -- 5. Metatext: Explaining Consciousness -- 6. Intertext: Pre-Modern and Postmodern Dream Images -- 7. Hypertext: Freud and Sociological Theories of Modern Society |
| Summary |
This novel and stimulating approach to Freud and to the dilemmas of modernity and postmodernity will fascinate everyone with an interest in the development of modern consciousness |
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From literary theory to social anthropology, the influence of Freud runs through every part of the human and social sciences. In The Lure of Dreams, Harvie Ferguson shows how Freud's writings and particularly The Interpretation of Dreams contribute, both in their content and in the baroque and dream-like forms in which they are cast, to our understanding of the character of modernity. He argues that the recent tendency to view Freud's work mainly as a product of nineteenth-century developments in biology and medicine have obscured what is most important and suggestive for us in his writings. Instead Harvie Ferguson discusses the development of Freud's ideas in the context of the Viennese fin de siecle culture in which they were nurtured, and examines the extent to which they reflect a breakdown of classical forms of rationalism in both the sciences and the arts and, more generally, the rehabilitation of dreams in late modernity |
| Analysis |
Dreams |
| Prior Title |
Journal of trace elements and electrolytes in health and disease |
| Notes |
Title from cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-243) and indexes |
| Subject |
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Influence.
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Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. Traumdeutung
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Civilization, Modern -- 20th century.
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Dream interpretation.
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Trace elements in the body -- Periodicals.
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Trace elements -- Health aspects -- Periodicals.
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| Genre/Form |
Periodicals.
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| Author |
Society for Minerals and Trace Elements.
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| LC no. |
95038490 |
| ISSN |
0946-672X |
| ISBN |
0415048354 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0415048362 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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