Philosophy of Dreams Christoph Türcke, Susan H. Gillespie
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- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication date:
- 22 Oct 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300188400
- Imprint:
- Yale University Press
- Dimensions:
- 304 pages: 235 x 156 x 27mm
- Sales territories:
- World
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Why has humankind 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 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.
“In this discussable, provocative, and exhilarating essay on the origins of culture, Christoph Türcke brilliantly combines a general theory of culture with a sharp critique of present society.”—Detlev Claussen, Leibniz University of Hannover
“One of Germany’s leading intellectuals reconstructs the process of civilization in this masterful and original new book. Attempting to understand both the genesis of culture and the genesis of mind, Türcke shows how our technological age leads straight back to prehistory.”—Oliver Decker, Universität Siegen
"An elegant and profound speculation, Philosophy of Dreams recasts Freud’s theory of dreams as a theory of human pre-history and its persistence in the technologized mind of the present. Wide-ranging and infinitely stimulating, Türcke presents nothing less than a complex and highly original philosophy of cognition and representation."—Silke-Maria Weineck, University of Michigan
Praise for the German Edition:
“The book covers just two-hundred fifty pages, but they are full to the brim. It remains to hope that “Philosophies des Traums” will be recognized for what it is; the genuine continuation, when not the “Aufhebung” of Freud’s theory.”—Burkhard Müller, Süddeutsche Zeitung
“astute”—Su¨ddeutsche Zeitung
“original”—Die Welt
“audacious”—Literaturen
“remarkable”—Die ZEIT
“stunningly plausible”—Neue Zu¨rcher Zeitung
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