During every waking moment of your day, a variety of experiences influence your perceptions, decisions and actions. Invariably, some of these experiences linger in your thoughts. This lingering influence persists during your unconscious, sleeping state as dreams. Your dreams are a result of experiences that persist in influence upon your mind while you sleep.The Dream Document lights a unique path to this remarkable aspect of human experience. It is the first and only book that clearly explains the nature and language of dreams. With nearly 900 original entries, The Dream Document offers a perspective of mind, consciousness, and dreaming that is nearly 60 years ahead of mainstream.

Studying works by authors including Gide, Breton, Aragon, Yourcenar, Duras, and Modiano, this volume re-thinks twentieth-century French literature and engages with the question of distinctions between the factual and the fictional.

The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

This book partakes of a long tradition of dream interpretation, but, at the same time, is unique in its cross-cultural and interdisciplinary methods and in its mix of theoretical and analytical approaches. It includes a great chronological and geographical range, from ancient Sumeria to eighteenth-century China; medieval Hispanic dream poetry to Italian Renaissance dream theory; Shakespeare to Nerval; and from Dostoevsky, through Emily Brontë, to Henry James. Rupprecht also incorporates various critical orientations including archetypal, comparative, feminist, historicist, linguistic, postmodern, psychoanalytic, religious, reader response, and self-psychology.

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