TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction (Wojciech Owczarski and Zofi a Ziemann) . . . 7
PART I
UNDERSTANDING DREAMS AND DREAM STUDIES Maciej Rajewski
Challenge and Mystery: On the Evolution of the Status
of Dream Analysis as a Tool of Anthropological Research . . . 21 Carlos A. Garduño Comparán
Are We Alone in the World? Th e Modern Distinction Between Dream and Reality . . . 39 Carlo Comanducci
From the Interpretation of Dreams to Dreamful Th ought:
Jean-Bertrand Pontalis Beyond the Language of Psychoanalysis . . . 47 Ilana Shiloh
Circular Reality: Who Dreams the Dreamer? . . . 55 Aurelian Botica
A Study of Ancient Methods and Contexts of Dream Interpretation . . . 61 Judy B. Gardiner
Th e Illusion of Fragmentation,
the Architecture of Wholeness and the Collective Unconscious . . . 81
PART II
DREAMS IN PSYCHOLOGY AND CULTURAL STUDIES Mariia Demianchuk
Modern Psychoanalytic Approaches to Dreams and Th eir Clinical Implications . . . 99 Massimo Schinco
Working with Dreams in Systemic Practices and Perspectives . . . 107 Sergio Pizziconi, Marco Zanasi and Daniele Silvi
Dream Coding: Re-Writing Dream Reports as an Object of Textual Analysis . . . 113 Marco Zanasi, Federica Testoni, Giannoudas Ioannis,
Marianna Melis and Alberto Siracusano
Dream Activity in Patients Aff ected by Bipolar Disorder . . . 127 Magdalena Serafi n
Gypsy in a Dream: Positive and Negative Stereotypes
of the Romani People in Contemporary Dream Books . . . 143
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Th erapeutic Eff ects of the Dreams of Nursing Home Residents in Poland . . . 153 Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhøj
Dreams of the Second World War . . . 179 Joanna Kubicka-Jakuczun
Dreams After Trauma: A Nightmare or a Recovery? . . . 191 Paulo Endo
Dream Representation in the Face of Pain and Hope . . . 207 Virpi Koskela
Innovating with Dreams:
Receiving Dreams as Possible Insights for the Daily Work . . . 213
PART III
DREAMS IN CREATIVE PRACTICE Katia Mitova
Dream Ambiguity in Fiction: Th e Odyssey, Othello and Anna Karenina . . . 227 Mert Ertunga
Th e Role of Philosophical Dreams in Tiphaigne de la Roche’s Amilec . . . 243 Magdalena Budzyńska
Conceptualisations of Dreaming in English and American Poetry
of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries . . . 257 Agnieszka Łowczanin
Walpole, Lewis and Shelley: Dreams and the Literary Gothic Tradition . . . 271 Barbara D’Amato
Writer’s Dreams . . . 283 Olena Lytovka
Th e Burden of Memory in Elizabeth Bowen’s Th e Death of the Heart . . . 295 Agata Buda
Between Dream and Reality:
Various Images of Dream in the Works by Antonia Susan Byatt . . . 301 Dávid Katona
Hypertext Dreams:
Th e Oneiric Attributes of Milorad Pavić’s Dictionary of the Khazars . . . 313 Daniel Tércio
Did Sleeping Beauty Have Dreams? . . . 321 Monika Żółkoś
‘I’m an Insect Who Dreamed He Was a Man’:
Th e Phantasmatic Insect Metamorphosis of Gregor Samsa . . . 329 Polina Golovátina-Mora
Monstrous Dreams and Monstrous Memory as the Fear of Self? . . . 337
Contributors . . . 351
