Lure of Dreams

Harvie Ferguson teaches sociology at the University of Glasgow.

• Pretext. 1. Context: the dream of modernity 2. Archetext: the texture of the present 3. Text: hermeneutics of the dream-life 4. Subtext: the prehistory of the ego 5. Metatext: explaining consciousness 6. Intertext: premodern and postmodern dream images 7. Hypertext: Freud and sociological theories of modern society Bibiography.

'This is an interesting, thought-provoking book, which leads the reader to question the apparent divides between theories in Psychology, Sociology, and Biology through giving examples from the far reaching work of Freud - especially dream analysis.' - PSIGE Newsletter, Jan 2000