Contents

The Art of Dreams. An Introduction

The Authority of Dreams

Sensible Dreams. Irrationality and the Philosophy of the Mind in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Representation of Dreams – Representation of Theater

The Logic of Writing, the Logic of Dreams. Reading Gottfried Keller’s Green Henry

“And I had to write it to you”. Franziska zu Reventlow and Else Lasker-Schüler: Dreaming in Public

“Chaque époque rêve la suivante”. Or: How to Read a “Bilderatlas” of the Twentieth Century?

Dream Bodies. On the Iconography of the Dreamer

“Dance-Work” and the Art of Walking in Benjamin, Valéry, Rilke, Jensen, and Nijinsky

Dreaming of the Mother: Notes on Love and Photography

Dreamtime: The Specter of Cinema

Contributors

Name index