Mnemosyne o la costruzione del senso n° 14 – 2021

In keeping with the theoretical framework of the Osservatorio scientifico della memoria scritta, orale, filmica e del patrimonio autobiografi co, which oversees the annual publication of Mnemosyne o la costruzione del senso, this issue explores the world of dreams from the perspective of different disciplines, with a focus on observation: the personal way of recounting dreams, the relationship of the dream to reality, the internal and external origin of the dream. Looking at the essays published here, it seems that the subject of the dream increasingly wants to understand the meaning of the future in their dreams, rather than getting a glimpse of the signs of their past. Interpreting dreams according to Freud or Jung, reading dreams with interpretative keys, or the experiences of neurosciences, remain henceforth in the background. The artists who generally take their unconscious as the basis of their creativity give the dream a prominent place. It also happened that some scientists attributed some of their discoveries to dreams. Literature, cinema, the figurative arts, the sciences, which increasingly tend to fragment the chronological order of time, place dreams on the same level of factual experience.
In sum, they give the world of dreams a new face. In other words, Bergman, Fellini, Tarkovsky, Lynch, Truffaut, essayists such as Pachet, and many contemporary writers (such as Élytis, Breton, Michaux, Bauchau) do not recount themselves by distinguishing dreams from tangible experience: they consider both as an active part of life.