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    The World of Dreams
    The World of Dreams
    The World of Dreams
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    The World of Dreams

    By Henri Bergson

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    Bergson incorporated the best of contemporary thinking in all his works. These thinkers included A. Krauss, Delage, Freud, and W. Robert. Bergson talks about how our sensory organs (eyes) are involved in dreams so that we think we perceive something but when we open our eyes it vanishes. This book is not a dictionary of dreams but a stunning example of how dreams work and function. Henri-Louis Bergson was a major French philosopher, influential in the first half of the 20th century. One of Bergson’s main problems is to think of novelty as pure creation, instead of as the unraveling of a predetermined program. His is a philosophy of pure mobility, unforeseeable novelty, creativity and freedom, which can thus be characterized as a process philosophy. It touches upon such topics as time and identity, free will, perception, change, memory, consciousness, language, the foundation of mathematics and the limits of reason.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhilosophical Library Open Road
    Release dateNov 4, 2014
    ISBN9781497675674
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    Henri Bergson

    Henri-Louis Bergson (18 October 1859–4 January 1941) was a French philosopher influential in the first half of the 20th century. He believed that for a true understanding of reality the processes of immediate experience combined with intuition play a larger role than rationalism and science.   In 1927 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature “in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented”. In 1930, he received France’s highest honor: the Grand-Croix de la Legion d’honneur.

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      The World of Dreams - Henri Bergson

      The World of Dreams

      Henri Bergson

      Translated by Wade Baskin

      Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      THE WORLD OF DREAMS

      INTRODUCTION

      In the modern world there is an increasing tendency to see the essence of reality and the secret of the universe, not in the inertia of matter, but in the movement of life. For the particular orientation of contemporary thought we are to a certain extent indebted to one man who, unwilling to submit to a materialistic doctrine, took up the concept of vitalism forged earlier by Schopenhauer and by virtue of the eloquence of his expression, the clarity of his thought, and the force of his sincerity, made a lasting impression on a sceptical age.

      The major works of Henri Bergson (1859-1941) are probably more familiar to the general public than are those of any other philosopher of our century. The same holds true for some of his minor works, one exception being the present work on dreams, first given as a lecture before the Institut Psychologique on March 26, 1901 and later published in the Revue Scientifique of June 8, 1901. And one is tempted to attribute the neglect in this instance to the nature of the subject rather than to a lack of merit in the work. Too many investigators seem unfortunately to look with disdain or bias on the study of the interpretation of dreams. Each culture has or has had its interpreters, yet the scientific literature on the subject suggests that, apart from the contributions of groups associated with Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, and C. G. Jung, there has been little progress since Bergson at the end of his enlightening study left us at the threshold of the mystery.

      That repressed wishes seek expression in dreams was a common belief among the ancients. Xerxes was urged repeatedly in his dreams to undertake the invasion of Greece. He renounced the idea only after he was told by Artabanus that his dreams were nothing more than the expression of thoughts that had been on his mind during the day. Lucretius subsequently observed that whatever our hearts are set upon will be the subject of our dreams; he was supported by Cicero, who added that dreams are influenced by the overflow from our waking life, and by Plotinus, who noted that in dreams phantasy presents us with the object of our desire.

      Another common belief among the ancients was that some dreams warn the sleeper that sickness or disease is imminent. Aristotle explained this; he pointed out that the sleeper has the ability to convert slight sensations into intense ones; he observed, for example, that a sleeper may dream of walking through fire when he perceives a slight sensation of heat on some part of his body. But the ancients insisted that while such dreams may be caused by immediate circumstances,

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