Histories of Dreams and Dreaming An Interdisciplinary Perspective /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Morgese, Giorgia (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Pietro Lombardo, Giovanni (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Vande Kemp, Hendrika (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Subjects: History.; Psychology.; Social history.; Civilization-History.; History of Science.; History of Psychology.; Social History.; Cultural History.

In the late nineteenth century, dreams became the subject of scientific study for the first time, after thousands of years of being considered a primarily spiritual phenomenon. Before Freud and the rise of psychoanalytic interpretation as the dominant mode of studying dreams, an international group...

Table of Contents:

• 1. A Vast Ocean of Neglected Dream Studies
• 2. A History of Dreams and the Science of Dreams: Historiographical Questions
• 3. Dream Journals, Questionnaires, Interviews, and Observations: Precursors to the Twentieth-Century Content Analysis of Dreams
• 4. Thomas De Quincey and the Fluid Movement between Literary and Scientific Writings on Dream-Inducing Drugs
• 5. Sante De Sanctis' Contribution to the Study of Dreams between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Originality of the Integrated Method
• 6. Dissociation and Dreams: Access to the Subconscious Mind
• 7. Lydiard Horton's Reconstitutive Method of Dream Interpretation and the Trial-and-Error Theory of Dream Images
• 8. Dreams and Trauma: Late Modernity's Discourses
• 9. The Sleepless Dream: Movement in Twentieth-Century Observation-Based Dream Research
• 10. History of Dream Research: Categorizations and Empirical Findings
• 11. Epilogue: A Multiplicity of Contexts for Histories of Dreams and Dreaming.