Dreams as Reason; the Reason of Dreams

February 5-6, 1997
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Morning Session, February 5, 9a.m.-noon

DAVID ROOCHNIK, Boston University

Socrates' Dreams

REUVEN KIMELMAN, Brandeis University

Dream as Interpretation in Judaism during Late Antiquity

MOSHE IDEL, Hebrew University

Dreams at the Beginning of Kabbalah

Afternoon Session, 2-6 p.m.

WALTER STEPHENS, Dartmouth College

The Dreams of Witches and the Possibility of Knowledge, 1400-1700

LAURENCE SULLIVAN, Harvard University

Religious Dreams Quests: Their Role in the Construction of Individual and Social Identity

HELLMUT WOHL, Boston University

The Dream in Art

JAN ZWICKY, University of Victoria

"Dream Logic" and the Politics of Intelligibility

Morning Session, February 6, 10 a.m.-noon

RICHARD NOLL, Harvard University

Cryptomnesia, Implicit Memory, and the Collective Unconscious:

Jung, Jungians, and the Problem of Truth

JEFFREY MEHLMAN, Boston University

The Dream-Text of Literature

Afternoon Session, 2-5 p.m.

ADOLF GRÜNBAUM, University of Pittsburgh

Freud's Neurobiological Dream Theory

ERNEST HARTMANN, Tufts University

Dreams Contextualize Emotion:

A Contemporary Theory of the Nature and Function of Dreaming

J. ALLAN HOBSON, Harvard University

Dreams as Delirium: A Brain Based Account