Bloom's Morning: Coffee, Comforters and the Secret Meaning of Everyday Life

by Arthur Asa Berger

Book Overview

Crossing Freud's Interpretation of Dreams with Joyce's Ulysses and Barthe's Mythologies, this work, through a series of vignettes, provides an understanding of morning rituals. Using the principles of psychoanalysis and cultural critique, it analyzes the moments of an average morning.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813332303
• ISBN13: 9780813332307
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Bloom's Morning is the wake up call Americans need!

Bloom's Morning is the wake up call Americans need to jolt them out of their somnambulistic parade through everyday life. Berger's compelling examination of the "commonplace" in our culture exposes core American behaviors of consumerism and denial in an entertaining, insightful manner, in tandem with wry and whimsical humor. Illustrating the book's 36 essays are Berger's own delightful drawings which are reminiscent of Thurber's in their simplicity of gesture. His concise introduction and conclusion offers the reader background information on semiotics and postmodernist philosophy. In Bloom's Morning, Berger peels back layer after layer of the "trivial" to reveal the myths of our psyches shrouded in the mundane, opening our minds to the mysteries of our lives.<BR