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Dreams and History Dreams are universal, but their perceived significance and conceptual framework change over time. Dreams and History provides fresh perspect- ives on the history of dreams and dream interpretation in western culture and thought. Containing important new scholarship on Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, and an exploration of subsequent psychoanalytical approaches, this collection celebrates and contextualizes Freud’s landmark intellectual production, whilst placing it alongside very different traditions of thought. Drawing on recent work in psychoanalysis and history, anthropology and art history, literature and history of science, it also discusses controversial ideas about the role of the external world in the shaping of unconscious mental contents. In accessible language it explores the causes, meanings and consequences of dreams, from Victorian anthropological exploration of ancient Greek sources to peasant interpretations of oneiric life in communist Russia, from medieval to modern dream narratives, from concepts of the dream in sixteenth-century England to visual images in nineteenth-century symbolist painting in France. Dreams and History will fascinate those interested in psychoanalysis, art, literature and myth. Daniel Pick is a psychoanalyst and Professor of Cultural History, Queen Mary, University of London. Lyndal Roper is a fellow and tutor in History at Balliol College, Oxford. Allie Dreams and History The interpretation of dreams from ancient Greece to modern psychoanalysis Edited by Daniel Pick and Lyndal Roper First published 2004 by Brunner-Routledge 27 Church Road, Hove, East Sussex BN3 2FA Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Brunner-Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York NY 10001 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004. Brunner-Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group Copyright © 2004 selection and editorial matter, Daniel Pick and Lyndal Roper; individual chapters, the contributors All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. This publication has been produced with paper manufactured to strict environmental standards and with pulp derived from sustainable forests. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dreams and history / [edited by] Daniel Pick and Lyndal Roper.—1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-58391-282-7 (alk. paper) – ISBN 1-58391-283-5 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Dreams–History. 2. Dream interpretation–History. I. Pick, Daniel. II. Roper, Lyndal. BF1078.D735 2003 154.6′3′09–dc21 2003006202 ISBN 0-203-64697-5(cid:13)Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-67915-6(cid:13)(Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 1-58391-282-7 (hbk) ISBN 1-58391-283-5 (pbk) Contents List of figures vii List of contributors viii Acknowledgements xi 1 Introduction 1 DANIEL PICK AND LYNDAL ROPER 2 How Freud wrote and revised his Interpretation of Dreams: Conflicts around the subjective origins of the book of the century 23 ILSE GRUBRICH-SIMITIS (transl. Arnold J. Pomerans) 3 Dreams and desires in ancient and early Christian thought 37 CHARLES STEWART 4 Interpreting dreams in medieval literature 57 HANS-JÜRGEN BACHORSKI (transl. Pamela E. Selwyn) 5 Women’s dreams in early modern England 91 PATRICIA CRAWFORD 6 Samuel Taylor Coleridge and ‘The pains of sleep’ 105 JENNIFER FORD 7 The meaning of dream books 125 MAUREEN PERKINS 8 Artists and the dream in nineteenth-century Paris: Towards a prehistory of surrealism 137 STEFANIE HERAEUS (transl. Deborah Laurie Cohen) vi Contents 9 Policing dreams: History and the moral uses of the unconscious 159 RHODRI HAYWARD 10 The dreambook in Russia 178 FAITH WIGZELL 11 ‘A nice type of the English scientist’: Tansley and Freud 199 LAURA CAMERON AND JOHN FORRESTER 12 Psychoanalysis, dreams, history: An interview with Hanna Segal 237 DANIEL PICK AND LYNDAL ROPER 13 A dream to dream 247 EDNA O’SHAUGHNESSY 14 The shark behind the sofa: Recent developments in the theory of dreams 253 SUSAN BUDD Index 271 List of figures 5.1 Anne Bathurst (1707) 91 7.1 The Fortune Teller, London, 1890, title page 124 8.1 Jean-Jacques Grandville, ‘First Dream: Crime and Atonement’, 1847 137 8.2 Jean-Jacques Grandville, ‘Second Dream: A Stroll in the Sky’, 1847 138 8.3 Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828), ‘The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters’ (Caprichos, no. 43), 1796–1797. Etching and aquatint; first edition, 1799 139 8.4 Jean-Jacques Grandville, ‘The Metamorphoses of Sleep’, 1844 144 8.5 d’Hervey de Saint-Denys, ‘Les rêves et les moyens de les diriger’, 1867 145 8.6 Victor Hugo, ‘Dentelles et Spectres’, undated, Paris 147 8.7 Charles Meryon, ‘The Vampire’ (Le Strye de Notre Dame), 1853 148 8.8 Charles Meryon, ‘Collège Henri IV’, 1864 149 8.9 Odilon Redon, ‘There was perhaps a first vision attempted in the flower’, 1883 151 10.1 The Interpretation of Dreams of Martyn Zadeka, Moscow, 1885, front cover 178 10.2 A Million Dreams. A New and Complete Dreambook, Moscow, 1901 183 10.3 The Dreambook. 215 Dreams or the Interpretation of Dreams by Various Egyptian and Indian Sages and Astronomers, Mtsera, 1883, front cover 188 12.1 Hanna Segal, 1997 237 14.1 Salvador Dali, ‘The Accommodations of Desire’, 1929 253 14.2 Louis Umgelter, ‘Cerebral Palsy’, 1906 260 14.3 Man Ray, ‘Le Violon d’Ingres’, 1924 266 14.4 René Magritte, ‘Le Viol’, 1934 267 Contributors Hans-Jürgen Bachorski was born in 1950 and studied in Hamburg and Berlin. He became professor of German medieval literature at the Univer- sity of Potsdam and worked on the romance of the late middle ages and early modern period, on laughter and comedy, on the history ofmentalities, and on the use of the ‘medieval’ in film. He died in 2001; his major study on the poetics of the late medieval and early modern novel is currently being prepared for publication. Susan Budd is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She was previously a lecturer in sociology at the London School of Economics. Her publications include Sociologists and Religion (1973) and Varieties of Unbelief: Atheists and Agnostics in English Society, 1850–1960 (1977). Laura Cameron is an assistant professor in Human Geography at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. She is the author of Openings: AMeditation on History, Method and Sumas Lake (1997): her work has appeared in Histoire sociale/Social History, Native Studies Review, History Workshop Journal, Psychoanalysis and History, Radical History Review and Histor- ical Geography. Patricia Crawford is professor of history at the University of Western Aus- tralia. Her most recent books are Women in Early Modern England, 1550– 1720, with Sarah Mendelson (1999), and, with Laura Gowing, Women’s Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England: A Sourcebook (1999). She is cur- rently working on a book about parents and children in early modern England. Jennifer Ford, an independent scholar based in Australia, works on Romanticism, poetry and history of medicine. Her book, Coleridge and Dreaming, was published in 1998. John Forrester is a professor in the History and Philosophy of Sciences Department, Cambridge University. His publications include Language and the Origins of Psychoanalysis (1980) and Truth Games: Lies, Money Contributors ix and Psychoanalysis (1997). His new book, The Freudian Century, will be published by Penguin. Ilse Grubrich-Simitis is a training analyst of the Frankfurt Psychoanalytical Institute and has written widely on Freud and the history of psychoanaly- sis. Her publications include Back to Freud’s Texts (1996) and Early Freud and Late Freud (1997). Rhodri Hayward is research fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. He is working on a history of psychiatry and general practice in twentieth-century Britain. He has published on the history of revivalism, psychiatry and neurology, and is completing a book on popular mysticism and the invention of the unconscious. Stefanie Heraeus is an art historian. Her catalogue and commentary on the collection of paintings in the Staatliche Museen Kassel, Germany, Spätbarock und Klassizismus, appeared recently. She is the author of Traumvorstellung und Bildidee – Surreale Strategien in der französischen Graphik des 19. Jahrhunderts (1998) and also lectures in Göttingen and Kassel. Edna O’Shaughnessy is a training analyst in the British Psychoanalytical Society, an editor of Melanie Klein and Roger Money-Kyrle’s work, and an author of many influential papers on clinical technique. She is a trustee of the Melanie Klein Trust and a clinical supervisor in child psycho- therapy at the Tavistock Clinic, London. Maureen Perkins, research fellow at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, is the author of Visions of the Future: Almanacs, Time and Cultural Change 1775–1870 (1996) and The Reform of Time: Magic and Modernity (2001). She is working on a history of stolen children in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Daniel Pick is professor of cultural history at Queen Mary, University of London, and a psychoanalyst. His work includes Faces of Degeneration (1989) and Svengali’s Web (2000). He is completing a book on Garibaldi, Rome and nationalism in the nineteenth century. Lyndal Roper is a fellow and tutor of Balliol College, Oxford. Her publica- tions include The Holy Household (1989) and Oedipus and the Devil (1994). She is currently finishing a book on witchcraft in baroque Germany. Hanna Segal was formerly Freud Professor at University College London, and President of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She is the author of many works on psychoanalysis, including An Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein (1964) and Dreams, Phantasy and Art (1991). Charles Stewart is reader in anthropology at University College London. His publications include Demons and the Devil: Moral Imagination in

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