Making - or Not Making - Sense of Dreams. Trouver - ou non - un sens au rêve

Dreams frighten and attract us because of their >otherness<, their="" manifold="" deviations="" from="" the="" world="" we="" know="" when="" we="" are="" awake.="" one="" of="" the="" most="" consistently="" used="" techniques="" of="" coming="" to="" terms="" with="" this="" otherness="" has="" been="" the="" attempt="" to="">make sense< of="" dreams,="" to="" consider="" and="" portray="" them="" as="" messages="" which="" can="" and="" have="" to="" be="" deciphered.="" on="" the="" other="" hand="" (and="" much="" more="" rarely),="" dreams="" have="" been="" considered="" as="" a="" welcome="" source="" of="" entertainment,="" or="" as="" a="" key="" instrument="" to="" expand="" the="" limitations="" of="" a="" rational="" and="" conventional="" world="" view.="" this="" book="" analyses="" aspects="" of="" this="" dialectic="" in="" factual="" dream="" reports="" and="" in="" fictional="" representations="" of="" the="" dream="" in="" literature,="" film,="" music,="" and="" painting.="" examples="" are="" taken="" from="" a="" great="" variety="" of="" cultures="" and="" historical="" periods.="" their="" authors="" and="" artists="" include:="" adorno,="" agualusa,="" andreas-salomé,="" apollinaire,="" artmann,="" beckmann,="" benjamin,="" breton,="" carroll,="" carter,="" diderot,="" droste-hülshoff,="" flaubert,="" goethe,="" gondry,="" grandville,="" ji="" yun,="" johannot,="" kafka,="" keller,="" klinger,="" kubin,="" li="" gongzuo,="" liu="" e,="" ma="" jian,="" meyrink,="" michaux,="" minnelli,="" montaigne,="" mora,="" ofenbauer,="" okri,="" oppenheim,="" plath,="" proust,="" pushkin,="" rousseau,="" schopenhauer,="" scott,="" seghers,="" sorel,="" soseki,="" wagner,="" walser,="" wang="" jian,="" weiner,="" wu="" jianren,="" yuan="" mei,="" zschokke,="" and="" many="">