{"product_id":"dreams-and-history","title":"Dreams and History","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is a dream?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDreams are universal, but their perceived significance and conceptual framework change over time. This book provides new perspectives on the history of dreams and dream interpretation in western culture and thought. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eDreams and History \u003c\/em\u003econtains important new scholarship on Freud's \u003cem\u003eInterpretation of Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e (1900) and subsequent psychoanalytical approaches from distinguished historians, psychoanalysts, historians of science and anthropologists. This collection celebrates and evaluates Freud's landmark intellectual production, whilst placing it in historical context. A modern view of psychoanalysis, it also discusses the controversial idea of the role of the external world on the shaping of unconscious mental contents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn highly accessible language it proceeds through a series of richly illustrated case studies, providing new source materials and debates about the causes, meanings and consequences of dreams, past and present: from Victorian anthropological exploration of ancient Greek dream sources to peasant interpretation of dream-life in communist Russia; from concepts of the dream in sixteenth-century England to visual images in nineteenth-century symbolist painting in France. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eDreams and History \u003c\/em\u003ewill fascinate those interested not only in psychoanalysis and history, but also arts, culture, humanities and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54236697985368,"sku":"9781583912836","price":45.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781583912836_4cdfeb89-2871-466f-bf3b-ae648169d7a2.jpg?v=1769152530","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/dreams-and-history","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}