Histories of Dreams and Dreaming

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. A Vast Ocean of Neglected Dream Studies

   • Giorgia Morgese

   Pages 1-15

3. A History of Dreams and the Science of Dreams: Historiographical Questions

   • Jacqueline Carroy

   Pages 17-32

4. Dream Journals, Questionnaires, Interviews, and Observations: Precursors to the Twentieth-Century Content Analysis of Dreams

   • Hendrika Vande Kemp

   Pages 33-61

5. Thomas De Quincey and the Fluid Movement Between Literary and Scientific Writings on Dream-Inducing Drugs

   • Thalia Trigoni

   Pages 63-90

6. Sante De Sanctis’ Contribution to the Study of Dreams Between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Originality of the Integrated Method

   • Chiara Bartolucci, Giovanni Pietro Lombardo, Giorgia Morgese

   Pages 91-120

7. Dissociation and Dreams: Access to the Subconscious Mind

   • Jodi L. Hasko, Kenneth D. Feigenbaum

   Pages 121-147

8. Lydiard Horton’s Reconstitutive Method of Dream Interpretation and the Trial-and-Error Theory of Dream Images

   • Hendrika Vande Kemp

   Pages 149-179

9. Dreams and Trauma: Late Modernity ’s Discourses

   • Sandra Leigh White

   Pages 181-218

10. The Sleepless Dream: Movement in Twentieth-Century Observation-Based Dream Research

    • Mina Lunzer

    Pages 219-245

11. History of Dream Research: Categorizations and Empirical Findings

    • Giorgia Morgese, Giovanni Pietro Lombardo

    Pages 247-274

12. Epilogue: A Multiplicity of Contexts for Histories of Dreams and Dreaming

    • Hendrika Vande Kemp

    Pages 275-286

13. Back Matter

    Pages 287-343

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In the late nineteenth century, dreams became the subject of scientific study for the first time, after thousands of years of being considered a primarily spiritual phenomenon. Before Freud and the rise of psychoanalytic interpretation as the dominant mode of studying dreams, an international group of physicians, physiologists, and psychiatrists pioneered scientific models of dreaming. Collecting data from interviews, structured observation, surveys, and their own dream diaries, these scholars produced a large body of early research on the sleeping brain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book uncovers an array of case studies from this overlooked period of dream scholarship. With contributors working across the disciplines of psychology, history, literature, and cultural studies, it highlights continuities and ruptures in the history of scientific inquiry into dreams.

• Dream studies
• History of dreaming
• Freud
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychology of dreams
• history of dream research
• The science of sleep
• Drugs and dreaming
• Neuroscience
• Historiometry
• dream research
• Thomas De Quincey
• Sante De Sanctis
• history of psychology
• dissociation in dreams
• dream interpretation
• Lydiard Horton
• dreams and trauma

• Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

  Giorgia Morgese, Giovanni Pietro Lombardo

• Durham, USA

  Hendrika Vande Kemp

Giorgia Morgese is Teaching Professor of General Psychology in the Department of Human Science, LUMSA University of Rome, and staff member of Archivio di Storia della Psicologia, Sapienza University of Rome.


Giovanni Pietro Lombardo is Full Professor of the History of Science and Scientific Manager of Archivio di Storia della Psicologia, Sapienza University of Rome.


Hendrika Vande Kemp is a clinical psychologist, family therapist, and historian of psychology. Formerly a professor of psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary, she is now an independent scholar and is currently writing a book about Lydiard Horton.

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