Philosophy of dreams /

Why has mankind developed so differently from other animals? How and why did language, culture, religion and the arts come into being? In this wide-ranging and ambitious essay, Christoph Türcke offers a new answer to these timeworn questions by scrutinizing the phenomenon of the dream, using it as a...

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Main Author: Türcke, Christoph
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
German
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Translatorâ€?s Note
  • PHILOSOPHY OF DREAMS
  • FOREWORD: THE EARLY STONE AGE IN US
  • 1 DREAMS
  • The Mental and the Physical
  • Hallucination
  • Symbol and Allegory
  • Reversal
  • Sacrifice
  • Representation
  • Mental Space
  • Dreamtime
  • Gilgamesh
  • Wild Interpretation
  • 2 DRIVES
  • The Principle of Constancy
  • Experience
  • Pathways
  • Stimulus Flight
  • Memory
  • Loosening the Drives
  • The Psychic “Apparatusâ€?
  • The Genesis of Ideals
  • Excess
  • Eros
  • Death Drive
  • Incest
  • Mysticism of the NewbornMyths of Origin
  • 3 WORDS
  • The Oath
  • Translating Natureâ€?s Convulsions
  • Ritual Acoustics
  • Primal Words
  • Fortâ€?Daâ€?
  • Nominalismâ€?Realism
  • Speech Acts
  • The Subjection of the Name
  • The Dreamtime of Language
  • Universal Grammar and Categories
  • Psychoanalytic Structuralism
  • The Talking Cure
  • AFTERWORD: HIGH-TECH DREAMTIME
  • Notes
  • Index of Proper Names
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • V