Dreams

Editions of the Somniale Danielis in Medieval and Humanist Literary Miscellanies

by Valerio Cappozzo

Dissertation Thesis, Indiana University 2012. Advisor: Prof. H. Wayne Storey

This study examines the ways in which the dream manual was materially bound together with collections of early Italian... more This study examines the ways in which the dream manual was materially bound together with collections of early Italian visionary literature. The Somniale Danielis was a widely circulated dream manual in the late Middle Ages. It guided the interpretation of dreams and also served as an important tool in the understanding of medieval literary dreams. Thus it is an important aid in the identification and description of traditional dream topoi. The entries of the dream-book represent a framework within which medieval vision poetry develops its network of images and motifs. In a larger sense, the medieval miscellany often provides us insights into the “utility” of common texts at diverse levels of reception and use. These usually thematic collections made by copyists at the request of a reader or a user not only supply us with little-known texts excluded from codices arranged by author or genre, but also give us a view into how different cultures associated diverse texts.
Since different versions of the manual were produced often for “local purposes”, this study provides diplomatic-interpretative editions of five representative texts of the Somniale Danielis in Latin and Italian in the context of medieval and humanist literary miscellanies. In addition to a study of the cultural contexts in which we find these versions of the Somniale, this study also offers a synoptic edition of the five texts with a focus on the diverse terms that are used to convey key concepts of medieval dream manuals. From this same comparative apparatus, the final part of the dissertation includes an inventory of dream symbols.

Eyes Wide Shut: Diderot's Le Rêve de d'Alembert

by Kate Tunstall

in James Fowler, New Essays on Diderot (Cambridge, 2011)

“Freudian dream theory, dream bizarreness, & the disguise-censor controversy”: Response to Commentaries.

by Simon Boag

Boag, S. (2006). “Freudian dream theory, dream bizarreness, & the disguise-censor controversy”: Response to Commentaries. Neuro-psychoanalysis, 8 (1), 59-68.

Response to commentaries by Mark Blechner, Rosalind Cartwright, Claudio Colace, Calude Gottesman, Brain Johnson, Nigel... more Response to commentaries by Mark Blechner, Rosalind Cartwright, Claudio Colace, Calude Gottesman, Brain Johnson, Nigel Mackay, Doris McIlwain, Agnes Petocz, and Calvin Kai-Ching Yu.

A structural and functional analysis of dream narratives

by Laura Cariola

Dreaming, 18 (1), pp.16-26.
MA thesis

This article demonstrates that elicited dream narratives use a differing narrative structural and functional... more This article demonstrates that elicited dream narratives use a differing narrative structural and functional framework, as proposed by Labov and Waletzky's (1967) narrative framework on elicited personal narratives. A quantitative structural and functional analysis of five male and female collected samples showed that dream narratives follow a homogenous structure of (1) Topic introduction, (2) Orientation, (3) Complication, (4) Evaluation, and (5) Coda, consequently reflecting the omission of Labov and Waletzky's (1967) proposed resolution unit, which confirms Labov's (1997) suggestion of the difficulty to distinguish between resolution and coda. Moreover, this article devotes attention to specific structural particularities, proposing that analepses and prolepses might indicate, firstly, the simultaneous processing of new spatial information and new protagonists, and secondly, reflecting indirectly the experience of dream bizarreness.

A structural and functional analysis of dream narratives

by Laura Cariola

Dreaming, 18 (1), pp.16-26.
MA thesis

This article demonstrates that elicited dream narratives use a differing narrative structural and functional... more This article demonstrates that elicited dream narratives use a differing narrative structural and functional framework, as proposed by Labov and Waletzky's (1967) narrative framework on elicited personal narratives. A quantitative structural and functional analysis of five male and female collected samples showed that dream narratives follow a homogenous structure of (1) Topic introduction, (2) Orientation, (3) Complication, (4) Evaluation, and (5) Coda, consequently reflecting the omission of Labov and Waletzky's (1967) proposed resolution unit, which confirms Labov's (1997) suggestion of the difficulty to distinguish between resolution and coda. Moreover, this article devotes attention to specific structural particularities, proposing that analepses and prolepses might indicate, firstly, the simultaneous processing of new spatial information and new protagonists, and secondly, reflecting indirectly the experience of dream bizarreness.

Behind Closed Eyes

by Kasia Szpakowska

Szpakowska, Kasia. Behind Closed Eyes: Dreams and Nightmares in Ancient Egypt. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2003.

Le rêve américain de Jean-Paul Sartre

by Yan Hamel

Les Temps Modernes, no 658-659, avril-juillet 2010, p. 49-80

Crossing Boundaris: Islamic Dream Sciences, Dante and Romance Literature

by Valerio Cappozzo

Hadeeth ad-Dar and Bareed ad-Dar, Kuwait, 2012.

Libri dei sogni e geomanzia: la loro applicazione letteraria tra Islam, medioevo romanzo e Dante

by Valerio Cappozzo

Dreams and Visions in the Indo-Mediterranean World, Quaderni di Studi Indo-Mediterranei, 2, 2009.

Träume für Jedermann. Die Geschichte einer Einschreibung, in: Thomas Ballhausen, Günter Krenn, Lydia Marinelli (Hg.): Psyche im Kino. Sigmund Freud und der Film, Wien 2006, S. 161-175

by Andrea Winklbauer

Confronting Death Mother: An interview with Marion Woodman

by Daniela Sieff

Book Critique of Maurice Halbwachs' "On Collective Memory"

by Patrick James Christian

Nova Southeastern University, Graduate School of Humanities & Social Science
Department of Conflict Analysis & Resolution


History, Memory & Conflict
Winter/Spring 2012

This paper seeks to review the contribution of Maurice Halbwachs’ introduction of the idea of collective memory on the... more This paper seeks to review the contribution of Maurice Halbwachs’ introduction of the idea of collective memory on the field of conflict analysis and resolution, especially at the psychological sociological levels of examination. The volume reviewed is a compilation of works by Halbwachs that was edited, translated and introduced by a contemporary, Professor Emeritus Lewis A Coser (1913-2003).  Given the breadth of subject material covered by this compilation, my review focuses on the first five chapters of the social frameworks of memory, which includes sections on dreams, language, reconstruction of the past, localization of memory and the collective memory of the family.  My use of Halbwachs as a primary source for analyzing family and community conflict stems from these chapters and has helped me lay the foundation for integrating Halbwachs work with that of Edmund Husserl, Georg Jellinek, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Howard Stein and Jonathan Winson. The works of these theoreticians spans subjects from philosophy, sociology, psychology, anthropology and neurology. Collectively, they and other social and natural scientists construct a theoretical basis for the psychological underpinnings of sociological life in human communities. My purpose in showing the integrative possibilities of Halbwachs’ work is the essence of my critique.  I believe that a theoretician’s work is most valuable when it provides foundational structure to integrate and develop knowledge for human advancement. As a foundation of memory, Halbwachs’ theory of collective memory provided a link that served to connect Emile Durkheim’s ideas of the collectivity of creation with the collectivity of memory which we now find to be underlying explanations of how humans build group identity, establish cultural integration across generational lines and ultimately, ensure species survival. This may sound dramatic, but without the existence of collective creation and of collective memory that Halbwachs illuminated, group identity and the generational existential memory that exists within that identity would not be possible.  And without the ability to collectivize and transmit the memory of our present existence to future remembrance and memorializing, “we could never be induced to lay the foundations for future societies that we will never see, never experience”

Asik Celebi'ye Ruyalarin Soyledikleri

by Asli Niyazioglu

Dreams Ottoman Biography Writing and the Halveti Sunbuli Sheikhs of the Sixteenth Century Istanbul

by Asli Niyazioglu

In The Dream Realm of a Sixteenth Century Ottoman Biographer: Taskoprizade and the Sufi Shaykhs

by Asli Niyazioglu

Neurobiology in the Consulting Room: An Interview with Margaret Wilkinson

by Daniela Sieff

Apocalypse (A User's Manual): Joseph Mede, the Interpretation of Prophecy, and the Dream Book of Achmet

by Kristine Haugen

The Seventeenth Century 25,2 (2010): 215-39

If the Apocalypse was a dream vision emanating from the ancient Near East, why not interpret it via a dream book also... more If the Apocalypse was a dream vision emanating from the ancient Near East, why not interpret it via a dream book also emanating from the ancient Near East? Such was the contention of the theologian Joseph Mede in 1632, and the dream book he nominated was that attributed to "an Arab" known as Achmet, first published in Greek in 1600. For Mede, Achmet removed all ambiguity and difficulty from the act of exegesis -- leaving aside problems that seem fairly obvious to us -- to such a degree that Mede claimed his explanations of the Apocalypse did not depend on "interpretation" at all but were purely "literal." The value of such a claim in a time of confessional strife can't be overstressed. This was a poor man's Orientalism, however. Mede's inspiration probably came from the hieroglyphic studies of previous generations of Italians, which centered on the manual of Horapollo; meanwhile, his nominal peers included Christian Hebraists such as Johann Drusius. His mission, briefly put, was to simplify his text rather than to add meanings and dimensions. Simultaneously, he insisted that its every word possessed theological significance. Perhaps because of Achmet's oriental allure, Mede's views held a firm position in English theology for well over a century and even convinced a reader as iconoclastic as Isaac Newton.

Aristotle My Beloved: Poetry, Diagnosis, and the Dreams of Julius Caesar Scaliger*

by Kristine Haugen

Renaissance Quarterly 60,3 (2007): 819-47

Notoriously Aristotelian in his poetic theory, linguistics, and natural philosophy, Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484-1558)... more Notoriously Aristotelian in his poetic theory, linguistics, and natural philosophy, Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484-1558) also reimagined the lost love poetry that Aristotle himself was said to have written. Scaliger's 'New Epigrams' of 1533 combine a distinctively humanist view of Aristotle as an elegant polymath with a sustained experiment in refashioning the Petrarchan love lyric. Most visibly in poems about dreams and dreaming, Scaliger educes his speaker's erotic despair from philosophical problems in contemporary Aristotelian accounts of the soul, knowledge, and personal identity. The strange but compelling texts that result form a crossroads for Scaliger's own identities as physician, philosopher, and poet.

Del Tao a Juan Luis Vives: el extraordinario tránsito de los relatos de la vida soñada

by antonio dominguez leiva

La vie comme songe?: une tentation de l'Occident

by antonio dominguez leiva