Night: Night Life, Night Language, Sleep and DreamsW. W. Norton & Company, 1996 - 290 páginas In this powerfully written book, A. Alvarez examines night in all its aspects. How do we light it? How do we inhabit it and make it safe? In what "languages" do we dream? The search moves from the neon-lit brilliance of Las Vegas to the shadowy underworld patrolled by the police. We visit a sleep laboratory, where scientists try to understand what happens to our bodies and in our brains when sleep claims us. Alvarez shows how "night horrors" inspired and terrified Coleridge, how dreams liberated the minds of Stevenson and the Surrealists, and how his own childhood fears provided a gateway to the secret world of the unconscious. And through a highly original and accessible account of the thoughts of Freud, Jung, and their modern-day counterparts, Alvarez reveals how deeply dreams and the unconscious color and fashion our waking lives. Like his bestseller The Savage God, Night is a remarkable, eloquent combination of ideas and personal experience; it is a literary feast, a journey of discovery, and a perfect initiation into the mysteries of the dark. |
Contenido
THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS | 23 |
THE SLEEP LABORATORY | 61 |
DREAMING | 87 |
S KEEPING THE PEACE | 217 |
NIGHT OWLS | 257 |
Notes | 273 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Night: An Exploration of Night Life, Night Language, Sleep and Dreams Alfred Alvarez Vista de fragmentos - 1995 |
Términos y frases comunes
10th Precinct activity Alphabet City analyst ancient Artemidorus artist awake bedroom Brownies Cabrera called candle century chaos child Coleridge consciousness cops creatures Cruttingden darkness Dinofelis Don DeLillo dreamer dreaming brain electric electrodes emotional experience eyes face fact fantasy father fear feeling fire Freud frightened Gilmartin Gothick graph happened Hervey de Saint-Denys Hobson hypnagogic hallucinations images imagination Interpretation of Dreams Jung kind Kubla Khan lamps language later less Lieutenant light lives London looked meaning mental Michael Caine mind mother move mysterious Nanny neurons neurophysiology never night nightmare parasomnia patient patrol poem police polygraph problem psychoanalyst rapid eye movement REM sleep remember Romantics scene scientific scientists seemed sense sexual Sharon sleep research slept someone sound Stevenson streets superego Surrealists switched talk terror things thought turned unconscious waking watch window woke words wrote