Description
Modern psychiatry and psychoanalysis have associated dreams, madness and mystical trance with hysteria. But while we must reject such a reduction, we can admit that, with dreams, trances and madness, we are entering a 'different' world.
Primitive societies clearly grasped this 'otherness' and strangeness, establishing a system of communication between the world here below and the supernatural world, in which the dreamer, the madman and the woman in a trance constitute privileged intermediaries.
Our modern societies have severed these links, and the supernatural is now universally rejected in the name of Cartesian and scientific reason. However, dreams, madness and trance continue to question us as a society and as individuals.
Characteristics
Author : Roger Bastide
- Number of pages
- 320
- Publication date
- 20/06/2003
- Dimensions
- 18 cm x 10.8 cm x 1.5 cm
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- Categories
- Exhibition & catalogues, Exhibition - Zombis. Death is not the end ?