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A sweeping reconstruction of human consciousness and its breakdown, from the Stone Age through modern technologyWhy has humankind developed so differently from other animals? How and why did language, culture, religion, and the arts come into being? In this wideranging and ambitious essay, Christoph Trcke offers a new answer to these timeworn questions by scrutinizing the phenomenon of the dream, using it as a psychic fossil connecting us with our Stone Age ancestors. Provocatively, he argues that both civilization and mental processes are the results of a compulsion to repeat early traumas, one to which hallucination, imagination, mind, spirit, and God all developed in response. Until the beginning of the modern era, repetition was synonymous with deescalation and calming down. Then, automatic machinery gave rise to a new type of repetition, whose effects are permanent alarm and distraction. The new global forces of distraction, Trcke argues, are producing a specific kind of stress that breaks down the barriers between dreams and waking consciousness. Trckes essay ends with a sobering indictment of this psychic deregulation and the social and economic deregulations that have accompanied it.
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