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A Dream Interpreted Within a Dream - (Zone Books (Mit Press)) by  Elliot R Wolfson (Hardcover) - 1 of 1

A Dream Interpreted Within a Dream - (Zone Books (Mit Press)) by Elliot R Wolfson (Hardcover)

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  • Dreams have attracted the curiosity of humankind for millennia.
  • About the Author: Elliot R. Wolfson is Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University.
  • 568 Pages
  • Self Improvement, Dreams
  • Series Name: Zone Books (Mit Press)

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An exploration of the wakeful character of the dream and the dreamful character of wakefulness.



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Dreams have attracted the curiosity of humankind for millennia. Elliot R. Wolfson's A Dream Interpreted Within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination grapples with the allusive and elusive place dreaming occupies in the panorama of human experience. Drawing on a variety of contemporary academic disciplines, Wolfson returns to and rethinks past explications of the dream: that the dream state and waking reality are on an equal phenomenal footing; that the sensory world is the dream from which one must awaken by waking to the dream in which one is merely dreaming that one is awake. By interpreting the dream within the dream, Wolfson articulates how a productive paradox emerges to reveal the wakeful character of the dream and the dreamful character of wakefulness.

Wolfson utilizes psychoanalysis, phenomenology, literary theory, and neuroscience, to elucidate the oneiric phenomenon in a vast array of biblical, rabbinic, philosophical, and kabbalistic texts. No one morphology of the dream phenomenon is either sufficient or comprehensive. Rather, Wolfson proposes a linguistic archaeology of the dream, a philosophically inflected excavation of a psychological phenomenon that celebrates the contingent and ambiguous as signifiers of truth conceived as proportionate to, but not prescribed by nature. As such, the dream is classified as the immanentizing transcendence under the sign of the imaginary.

Through close readings, Wolfson interprets the mythologic of dreams. He discovers therein how and in what form dreams uniquely display the concurrence of purportedly contradictory and incongruent images. To heed the cadence of the dream is, therefore, to appropriate a calculus of the noncalculable, and to embrace the paradox of fictional truth whose authenticity can be gauged only from the standpoint of its artificiality. Through Wolfson's artful, lucid, and erudite readings, the dream is shown to be an imaginal excessiveness, at once foreseeable but unprecedented, the semblance of the simulacrum wherein truth does not oppose deception, wherein the appearance of truthfulness is impossible to determine independently of the truthfulness of appearance.

A Dream Interpreted Within a Dream will ultimately call forth a new way to think the effects and transformations of phenomenological experiences, affective, corporeal and cognitive.



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"Winner of the Award for Excellence in Constructive-Reflective Studies of Religion, American Academy of Religion"



About the Author



Elliot R. Wolfson is Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. He is the author of Venturing Beyond: Law and Morality in Kabbalistic Mysticism, Luminal Darkness: Imaginal Gleanings From Zoharic Literature, and other books.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.1 Inches (H) x 6.3 Inches (W) x 1.6 Inches (D)
Weight: 2.05 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 568
Genre: Self Improvement
Sub-Genre: Dreams
Series Title: Zone Books (Mit Press)
Publisher: Zone Books
Format: Hardcover
Author: Elliot R Wolfson
Language: English
Street Date: September 9, 2011
TCIN: 86493288
UPC: 9781935408147
Item Number (DPCI): 247-38-4101
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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