Histories Of Dreams And Dreaming: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (palgrave Studies In The History Of Science And Technology)

"In the late nineteenth century, dreams became the subject of scientific study for the first time, after thousands of years of being considered a primarily spiritual phenomenon. Before Freud and the rise of psychoanalytic interpretation as the dominant mode of studying dreams, an international group of physicians, physiologists, and psychiatrists pioneered scientific models of dreaming. Collecting data from interviews, structured observation, surveys, and their own dream diaries, these scholars produced a large body of early research on the sleeping brain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book uncovers an array of case studies from this overlooked period of dream scholarship. With contributors working across the disciplines of psychology, history, literature, and cultural studies, it highlights continuities and ruptures in the history of scientific inquiry into dreams."-- Publisher description Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii A Vast Ocean of Neglected Dream Studies (Giorgia Morgese)....Pages 1-15 A History of Dreams and the Science of Dreams: Historiographical Questions (Jacqueline Carroy)....Pages 17-32 Dream Journals, Questionnaires, Interviews, and Observations: Precursors to the Twentieth-Century Content Analysis of Dreams (Hendrika Vande Kemp)....Pages 33-61 Thomas De Quincey and the Fluid Movement Between Literary and Scientific Writings on Dream-Inducing Drugs (Thalia Trigoni)....Pages 63-90 Sante De Sanctis’ Contribution to the Study of Dreams Between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Originality of the Integrated Method (Chiara Bartolucci, Giovanni Pietro Lombardo, Giorgia Morgese)....Pages 91-120 Dissociation and Dreams: Access to the Subconscious Mind (Jodi L. Hasko, Kenneth D. Feigenbaum)....Pages 121-147 Lydiard Horton’s Reconstitutive Method of Dream Interpretation and the Trial-and-Error Theory of Dream Images (Hendrika Vande Kemp)....Pages 149-179 Dreams and Trauma: Late Modernity’s Discourses (Sandra Leigh White)....Pages 181-218 The Sleepless Dream: Movement in Twentieth-Century Observation-Based Dream Research (Mina Lunzer)....Pages 219-245 History of Dream Research: Categorizations and Empirical Findings (Giorgia Morgese, Giovanni Pietro Lombardo)....Pages 247-274 Epilogue: A Multiplicity of Contexts for Histories of Dreams and Dreaming (Hendrika Vande Kemp)....Pages 275-286 Back Matter ....Pages 287-343 In the late nineteenth century, dreams became the subject of scientific study for the first time, after thousands of years of being considered a primarily spiritual phenomenon. Before Freud and the rise of psychoanalytic interpretation as the dominant mode of studying dreams, an international group of physicians, physiologists, and psychiatrists pioneered scientific models of dreaming. Collecting data from interviews, structured observation, surveys, and their own dream diaries, these scholars produced a large body of early research on the sleeping brain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book uncovers an array of case studies from this overlooked period of dream scholarship. With contributors working across the disciplines of psychology, history, literature, and cultural studies, it highlights continuities and ruptures in the history of scientific inquiry into dreams.-- Provided by publisher