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Dreams and atrocity
The oneiric in representations of trauma
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Edited by:
Emily-Rose Baker
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English
Published/Copyright:
2022
About this book
This volume explores the relationship between oneiric and historical episodes of atrocity as depicted in transnational twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, film, literature and theatre. Examining the political and aesthetic power harnessed by dreams in increasingly ‘dark times’, it takes as its starting point the overlooked significance granted to the oneiric beyond Freudian psychoanalysis. By reading the oneiric within variously known cultural texts – including Holocaust fiction, world cinema, Bronx theatre, surrealist art and two collections of wartime dream transcriptions – the volume also offers a renewed perspective on modern and contemporary trauma. In so doing, it demonstrates the relevance of the oneiric, beyond the interpretative framework of psychoanalysis, as an aesthetic and political tool with which to alert us and respond to the violence of our contemporary world.
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Emily-Rose Baker is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Film in the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas
Diane Otosaka is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds
Diane Otosaka is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds
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Front Matter
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Contents
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List of figures
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List of contributors
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Foreword
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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I Dream images
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1 Dream images, psychoanalysis and atrocity
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2 Dreaming and collecting dreams in occupied France
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3 Dreams and thresholds
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4 Condemned to oblivion
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ii Dreams as sites of resistance
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5 Traumatic dreams as sites of witness and resistance in the life and work of Ingeborg Bachmann
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6 The Third Reich of Dreams
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7 Living and resisting intersectional oppression through ballroom
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8 Dreams, justice and spectrality in Rêver peutêtre (Perchance to Dream) by Jean-Claude Grumberg
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III Violent states
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9 Dreams, repetition and the real in Marie NDiaye’s Ladivine
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10 Dreaming the unthinkable
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11 ‘My hell dream’
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12 Shit, blood and sperm
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Afterword
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Index
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eBook published on:
February 14, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9781526158086
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook ISBN:
9781526158086
Keywords for this book
atrocity; dreams; Holocaust; modernity; Nazism; oneiricism; psychoanalysis; Sigmund Freud; trauma; unconscious
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
