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Siddhartha Ribeiro

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History of the Self: Dreams

Dreams should not be taken at face value. Dreams, and people knew this across cultures. People knew it in the ancient world. Now, dreams have been, of course, appropriated for political reasons many, many times. In the Roman Empire, it happened all the time. For example, Julius Caesar had a dream, well, reported a dream, when he was less than 30, in which he would have sex with his mother.

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History of the Self: Dreams

Dreams should not be taken at face value. Dreams, and people knew this across cultures. People knew it in the ancient world. Now, dreams have been, of course, appropriated for political reasons many, many times. In the Roman Empire, it happened all the time. For example, Julius Caesar had a dream, well, reported a dream, when he was less than 30, in which he would have sex with his mother.

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History of the Self: Dreams

And this dream was used politically many, many years later. when he crossed the Rubicon and invaded Rome and caused a civil war, this dream was used at this moment politically to say that the dream was actually a good premonition because he was having intercourse with his mother, so he was taking control of the motherland. In all different cultures, a dream could decide a war.

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History of the Self: Dreams

And this dream was used politically many, many years later. when he crossed the Rubicon and invaded Rome and caused a civil war, this dream was used at this moment politically to say that the dream was actually a good premonition because he was having intercourse with his mother, so he was taking control of the motherland. In all different cultures, a dream could decide a war.

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History of the Self: Dreams

And this dream was used politically many, many years later. when he crossed the Rubicon and invaded Rome and caused a civil war, this dream was used at this moment politically to say that the dream was actually a good premonition because he was having intercourse with his mother, so he was taking control of the motherland. In all different cultures, a dream could decide a war.

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History of the Self: Dreams

A dream could decide the end of a war. A dream could decide whether kings would marry or make peace with their neighbors. In a way, until the end of the Middle Ages, dreams were the only possible light into the future. It was noisy, it was metaphorical, it was imprecise, but was nevertheless some sort of insight into the future.

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History of the Self: Dreams

A dream could decide the end of a war. A dream could decide whether kings would marry or make peace with their neighbors. In a way, until the end of the Middle Ages, dreams were the only possible light into the future. It was noisy, it was metaphorical, it was imprecise, but was nevertheless some sort of insight into the future.

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History of the Self: Dreams

A dream could decide the end of a war. A dream could decide whether kings would marry or make peace with their neighbors. In a way, until the end of the Middle Ages, dreams were the only possible light into the future. It was noisy, it was metaphorical, it was imprecise, but was nevertheless some sort of insight into the future.

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History of the Self: Dreams

However, in the past 500 years, two things started to develop very strongly, which opposed the importance of dreams. And those are capitalism, on one hand, and science, on the other hand. Capitalism and science have been developing hand to hand, together, intertwined, one feeding the other.

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History of the Self: Dreams

However, in the past 500 years, two things started to develop very strongly, which opposed the importance of dreams. And those are capitalism, on one hand, and science, on the other hand. Capitalism and science have been developing hand to hand, together, intertwined, one feeding the other.

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History of the Self: Dreams

However, in the past 500 years, two things started to develop very strongly, which opposed the importance of dreams. And those are capitalism, on one hand, and science, on the other hand. Capitalism and science have been developing hand to hand, together, intertwined, one feeding the other.

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History of the Self: Dreams

And then after the development of proper science, and that, I think, is related to capitalism, the insight into the future became technical, scientific.

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History of the Self: Dreams

And then after the development of proper science, and that, I think, is related to capitalism, the insight into the future became technical, scientific.

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History of the Self: Dreams

And then after the development of proper science, and that, I think, is related to capitalism, the insight into the future became technical, scientific.

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History of the Self: Dreams

However, I think it was a mistake, and it is a mistake for us, to replace one with the other. Because the kind of insight we can get from dreams is very different from the insight we get from science.

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History of the Self: Dreams

However, I think it was a mistake, and it is a mistake for us, to replace one with the other. Because the kind of insight we can get from dreams is very different from the insight we get from science.

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History of the Self: Dreams

However, I think it was a mistake, and it is a mistake for us, to replace one with the other. Because the kind of insight we can get from dreams is very different from the insight we get from science.

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History of the Self: Dreams

When Freud was a young doctor, he was a scientist. He saw himself as a scientist. And he was trying himself in different fields of science, of neuroscience.

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History of the Self: Dreams

When Freud was a young doctor, he was a scientist. He saw himself as a scientist. And he was trying himself in different fields of science, of neuroscience.

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History of the Self: Dreams

When Freud was a young doctor, he was a scientist. He saw himself as a scientist. And he was trying himself in different fields of science, of neuroscience.