Seeing in the Dark: Reflections on Dreams and Dreaming

by Bert O. States and Professor Bert O. States

Book Overview

In this absorbing book, States explores the relationship between waking experience and dreams, and between dreams and literary creativity. Challenging the classic psychoanalytic view that dreams represent censored wishes, States argues that dreams are nonrepressive, unplanned constructions and that, like art, they are manifestations of a biological need to convert experience into structure. "States is the best writer on dreams since Freud. His engaging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300105649
• ISBN13: 9780300105643
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"