Dreams that matter Egyptian landscapes of the imagination

Dreams that Matter explores the social and material life of dreams in contemporary Cairo. Amira Mittermaier guides the reader through landscapes of the imagination that feature Muslim dream interpreters who draw on Freud, reformists who dismiss all forms of divination as superstition, a Sufi devotio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mittermaier, Amira, 1974- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press 2011.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b43147999*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : studying dreams in undreamy times
  • Dream trouble
  • Thresholds of interpretation
  • Seeing the (in)visible
  • Poetry and prophecy
  • The ethics of the visitational dream
  • Royal road into the unknown
  • Virtual realities, visionary realities
  • Afterword : the politics of dreaming.