1st Edition

Envisioning the Dream Through Art and Science

276 Pages

by Routledge

276 Pages

by Routledge

276 Pages

by Routledge

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Description

This monograph is the product of an interdisciplinary experiment--an artistic experiment and a psychological experiment--focused on dreams. Inspired by the prevalence of dream imagery and "dream logic" in surrealist art, the authors asked 100 art students to create digital images representing critical scenes from one of their dreams, then to create a surrealist collage from the digital images. The... Read more

An Interdisciplinary Experiment on Dream Imagery

Experimental Methods

Artistic Experiment: Surrealism and the Boundaries between Subconscious Dreaming and Reality

Penetration of the Boundaries between Dream and Reality

Quest for Archetypal Manifestations of Subconscious Impulses

Use of Collage to Make Incongruities Compatible

Conclusions from the Artistic Experiment

Psychological Experiment: The Problem of Other Minds and the Visual Content of Dreams

Connections between Emotions Underlying a Dream and Visual Aspects of the Dream

Connections between Symptoms of Psychopathology and Visual Aspects of the Dream

Conclusions from the Psychological Experiment

Appendix with 100 Artists’ Verbal Descriptions, Interpretations, and Digital Images of Their Own Dreams