Beschreibung
Nightmares are extremely intense emotional experiences, often confronting the dreamer with an existential threat to the self, and sometimes even to humanity as a whole. It has always been a particular challenge for artists working in different media and genres to convey this extraordinary intensity. This volume examines the psychological and cultural significance of anxiety-driven dreams and explores features of a specific aesthetic of the nightmare. Its historical focus is the 20th and 21st centuries when the nightmare came to be seen as the epitome of, and the most appropriate metaphor for, an all-encompassing human barbarism. This period also saw the emergence of new theoretical approaches to the understanding of nightmares and of innovative artistic movements and genres dealing with this domain of dreams, such as surrealism, fantasy, and the horror film. The essays in this volume engage with the psychoanalysis of nightmares, their presentation in literature and film, and with autobiographical accounts of nightmares in response to personal traumas and civilisational catastrophes such as endemic abuse, wars of extermination, genocides, torture and prison camps.
Autor*innen
Dickson, Sheila
SHEILA DICKSON, Professor of German, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Selected publications: Romantic Dreams (co-ed. with Mark G. Ward, 1998); therein: »Making dreams come true in the works of Achim von Arnim«; »›Unerhörte Begebenheiten‹ in Karl Philipp Moritz’s Journal of Empirical Psychology (1783-1793)« (2013); »›[D]as Innere des Men-schen aufklär[en]‹: Poetry as Psychology in Moritz’s Magazin zur Erfah-rungsseelenkunde« (2015); K.P. Moritz, K.F. Pockels, S. Maimon, Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde. 10 volumes (digital critical edition, co-ed. with Christof Wingertszahn), http://www.mze.gla.ac.uk/ (2016); »Krankheit als romantischer Alltag in Achim von Arnims Der tolle Invalide und Frau von Saverne« (2016); “Eclectic Dichtotomies in K. P. Moritz’s Aesthetic, Pedagogical, and Therapeutic Worlds”, Goethe Yearbook. Publications of the Goethe Society of North America 28 (2021).
Schmidt-Hannisa, Hans-Walter
Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, Professor of German, University of Galway, Ireland. Selected publications: Das Protokoll: Eine Textsorte und ihre kulturellen Funktionen (co-ed. with Michael Niehaus, 2005); Das nächtliche Selbst: Traumwissen und Traumkunst im Jahrhundert der Psychologie, 1850-1950, 2 vol. (co-ed. with Marie Guthmüller, 2016 and 2020); Der Traum im Gedicht (co-ed. with Bernard Dieterle, 2017).
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