Politics of the Dreamscape

Seth Rogoff is a novelist and a scholar of literary and cultural analysis. He is the author of the novels First, the Raven: a Preface (2017) and Thin Rising Vapors (2018). He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam’s Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), The Netherlands, and is currently a lecturer in history and English at the University of Southern Maine, USA, and a member of the MFA faculty at Maine College of Art.

• 1.Introduction.- 2.Dreams and Power.- 3.Dreams and Power between Jacob and Joseph, a Speculative Interpretation.- 4. Freud’s Conquest of the Dreamscape.- 5.Dream-Texts Integrating and Disintegrating.- 6. Dreams and Power in Kafka’s The Castle .-7.J. Allan Hobson’s Dreamstage in Context.-8.Conclusion