(DOWNLOAD) "Philosophy of Dreams" by Christoph Türcke & Susan H. Gillespie # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Philosophy of Dreams
- Author : Christoph Türcke & Susan H. Gillespie
- Release Date : January 28, 2013
- Genre: Philosophy,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2116 KB
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Why has humankind developed so differently from other animals? How and why did language, culture, religion, and the arts come into being? In this wide-ranging and ambitious essay, Christoph Türcke offers a new answer to these timeworn questions by scrutinizing the phenomenon of the dream, using it as a psychic fossil connecting us with our Stone Age ancestors. Provocatively, he argues that both civilization and mental processes are the results of a compulsion to repeat early traumas, one to which hallucination, imagination, mind, spirit, and God all developed in response. Until the beginning of the modern era, repetition was synonymous with de-escalation and calming down. Then, automatic machinery gave rise to a new type of repetition, whose effects are permanent alarm and distraction. The new global forces of distraction, Türcke argues, are producing a specific kind of stress that breaks down the barriers between dreams and waking consciousness. Türcke’s essay ends with a sobering indictment of this psychic deregulation and the social and economic deregulations that have accompanied it.