»When I wake up, all the dreams are gathered around me but I am careful not to ponder them«
The Nightmarish in Kafka’s Dreams – Approaches to Dream Textures and Their Thresholds
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https://doi.org/10.30820/0942-2285-2024-2-86Keywords:
Kafka’s dream textures, provocation of the text, empathy disorder, trauma, desire, symbolizationAbstract
In his diaries and letters, Kafka recorded around 60 dreams, and in his literary texts the structural patterns of dreams are once again subjected the laws of fiction. In Kafka’s case, insomnia is not the result of excessive creative work but rather an unavoidable condition of writing.
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Rabelhofer, Bettina. 2024. “»When I Wake Up, All the Dreams Are Gathered Around Me But I Am Careful Not to Ponder them«: The Nightmarish in Kafka’s Dreams – Approaches to Dream Textures and Their Thresholds”. Journal für Psychologie 32 (2):86-106. https://doi.org/10.30820/0942-2285-2024-2-86.
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