Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures vii
4. List of contributors viii
5. Foreword xiii
6. Acknowledgements xviii
7. Introduction 1
8. I Dream images 17
9. 1 Dream images, psychoanalysis and atrocity 19
10. 2 Dreaming and collecting dreams in occupied France 39
11. 3 Dreams and thresholds 60
12. 4 Condemned to oblivion 79
13. ii Dreams as sites of resistance 97
14. 5 Traumatic dreams as sites of witness and resistance in the life and work of Ingeborg Bachmann 99
15. 6 The Third Reich of Dreams 120
16. 7 Living and resisting intersectional oppression through ballroom 139
17. 8 Dreams, justice and spectrality in Rêver peutêtre (Perchance to Dream) by Jean-Claude Grumberg 160
18. III Violent states 179
19. 9 Dreams, repetition and the real in Marie NDiaye’s Ladivine 181
20. 10 Dreaming the unthinkable 199
21. 11 ‘My hell dream’ 220
22. 12 Shit, blood and sperm 238
23. Afterword 258
24. Index 263