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Dreams have attracted the curiosity of humankind for millennia. Elliot R. Wolfsons A Dream Interpreted Within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination grapples with the allusive and elusive place dreaming occupies in the panorama of human experience. Drawing on a variety of contemporary academic disciplines, Wolfson returns to and rethinks past explications of the dream: that the dream state and waking reality are on an equal phenomenal footing; that the sensory world is the dream from which one must awaken by waking to the dream in which one is merely dreaming that one is awake. By interpreting the dream within the dream, Wolfson articulates how a productive paradox emerges to reveal the wakeful character of the dream and the dreamful character of wakefulness.Wolfson utilizes psychoanalysis, phenomenology, literary theory, and neuroscience, to elucidate the oneiric phenomenon in a vast array of biblical, rabbinic, philosophical, and kabbalistic texts. No one morphology of the dream phenomenon is either sufficient or comprehensive. Rather, Wolfson proposes a linguistic archaeology of the dream, a philosophically inflected excavation of a psychological phenomenon that celebrates the contingent and ambiguous as signifiers of truth conceived as proportionate to, but not prescribed by nature. As such, the dream is classified as the immanentizing transcendence under the sign of the imaginary.Through close readings, Wolfson interprets the mythologic of dreams. He discovers therein how and in what form dreams uniquely display the concurrence of purportedly contradictory and incongruent images. To heed the cadence of the dream is, therefore, to appropriate a calculus of the noncalculable, and to embrace the paradox of fictional truth whose authenticity can be gauged only from the standpoint of its artificiality. Through Wolfsons artful, lucid, and erudite readings, the dream is shown to be an imaginal excessiveness, at once foreseeable but unprecedented, the semblance of the simulacrum wherein truth does not oppose deception, wherein the appearance of truthfulness is impossible to determine independently of the truthfulness of appearance.A Dream Interpreted Within a Dream will ultimately call forth a new way to think the effects and transformations of phenomenological experiences, affective, corporeal and cognitive.
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- Q: What is the main theme of 'A Dream Interpreted within a Dream'? A: The main theme of the book revolves around the exploration of dreams and their significance within human experience, examining how dreams and waking reality are interconnected.
- Q: Who is the author of the book? A: The author of 'A Dream Interpreted within a Dream' is Elliot R. Wolfson.
- Q: What academic disciplines does the author draw upon in this book? A: Elliot R. Wolfson utilizes psychoanalysis, phenomenology, literary theory, and neuroscience to analyze the phenomenon of dreams.
- Q: How many pages does the book contain? A: The book has a total of 568 pages.
- Q: What type of binding does this book have? A: This edition of the book is bound in hardcover.
- Q: When was 'A Dream Interpreted within a Dream' published? A: The book was published on September 9, 2011.
- Q: Is the book suitable for someone new to the topic of dreams? A: While the book provides in-depth analysis, it may be more suitable for readers with some background in academic discussions of dreams due to its complex themes.
- Q: What are the key features of the book? A: The book explores the paradoxes of dreaming, the relationship between dreams and reality, and interpretations of dreams through various literary and philosophical lenses.
- Q: Is the book considered a new or used item? A: The item condition is listed as new.
- Q: What types of texts does Wolfson reference in his interpretations? A: Wolfson references a vast array of biblical, rabbinic, philosophical, and kabbalistic texts in his interpretations of dreams.