Between the Visible and the Invisible
An Attempt at a Phenomenology of Dreams
Abstract
In this contribution I will attempt to sketch a phenomenology of dreaming in what appear to be its most important characterisations: for example, a specific (a)temporality, an essential ineffability, its relation to the waking world and a particular causality. In order to do this, I will be guided by two authors – Maria Zambrano and Maurice Merleau-Ponty – who seems to be apparently distant but who share a vision of dreaming as a life-world in continuity with the waking world, which is comprehensible only by adopting a non-rational gaze, such as that offered by poetry and myth. The final aim will be to rehabilitate the dreaming experience as a lived one, able to express deep subjective meanings.
Downloads
References
Borges, J. L. (1999). Everything and Nothing. Trans. By D. A. Yates, J. E. Irby, J. M. Fein, E. Weinberger. New York: New Directions.
Fink, E. (1966). Vergegenwärtigung und Bild. In Fink, E. Studien zur Phänomenologie 1930-1939. The Hague: Nijhoff.
Fuchs, T. (2012). The phenomenology of body memory. In S. C. Koch, T. Fuchs, M. Summa, C. Müller (a cura di). Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Fuchs, T. (2019). Body memory and the unconscious. In Gipps, R., Lacewing, M. (a cura di). The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Husserl, E. (1980). Phantasie, Bildbewusstsein, Erinnerung. Zur Phä-nomenologie der anschaulichen Vergegenwärtigungen. Texte aus dem Nachlass (1898-1925), in: E. Husserl, Gesammelte Schriften, Bd. XXIII, hrsg. von E. Marbach,, Nijhoff, The Hague.
Merleau-Ponty, M (1960). Segni. Milano: Il Saggiatore.
Merleau-Ponty, M. (1964). Sense and Non-Sense. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
Merleau-Ponty, M. (1968). The Visible and the Invisible. Trans. by A. Lingis. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
Merleau-Ponty, M. (1995). Linguaggio, storia, natura: corsi al Collège de France, 1952-1961. Trad. it. di M. Carbone. Milano: Bompiani.
Merleau-Ponty, M. (2012). Fenomenologia della percezione. Trad. it. di A. Bonomi. Bompiani: Milano.
Hillman, J. (2003). Il Sogno e il Mondo Infero. Trad. it. di A. Bottini. Milano: Adelphi.
Husserl, E. (1980). Phantasie, Bildbewusstsein, Erinnerung. Zur Phänomenologie der anschaulichen Vergegenwärtigungen. Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
Husserl, E. (2014). Grenzprobleme der Phänomenologie. Analysen des Unbewusstseins und der Instinkte. Metaphysik. Späte Ethik. Texte aus dem Nachlass (1908-1937). Dordrecht: Springer.
Sartre, J.-P. (1972). The Psychology of Imagination. Trans. by M. Warnock. London: Methuen & Co.
Waldenfels, B. (1995). Erfahrung des Fremden in Husserls Phänomenologie. In Id. Deutsch-Französische Gedankengänge. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkam.
Zambrano, M (2002). Il Sogno Creatore. A cura di C. Marseguerra. Trad. it. di V. Martinetto. Milano: Bruno Mondadori.
Zambrano, M. (2004). I sogni e il tempo. Trad. it. di L. Sessa. Bologna: Pendragon.
Zhuangzi ([Chuang-tzŭ] 1981). The Seven Inner Chapters and Other Writings. Trans. by. A. C. Graham, A.C. Boston: Allen and Unwin.
Copyrights for articles published in Critical Hermeneutics are retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal.
Critical Hermeneutics is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence CC BY 3.0
. With the licence CC-BY, authors retain the copyright, allowing anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contribution (edited version), on condition that credit is properly attributed to its author and that Critical Hermeneutics is mentioned as its first venue of publication.
