Activities
Typologizing the Dream II
Up to now there is nothing like a standard typology of dreams – and there probably will never be one as the systems which are used to classify dreams are based on very different taxonomic principles. Dreams are e.g. classified according
• to their content/dominating motifs (love-dreams/erotic dreams; nightmares; conscience dreams; dreams of flying, death, birth, examination, shame; travels to heaven or hell, etc.)
• to their function and affiliated rituals (prophetic/divinatory dream, incubation dream, initiation dream, lucid dreaming, etc.)
• to their semiotics (message dream, symbolical/allegorical dream, theorematic dream, etc.)
• to their narratological purpose (dream series, recapitulation dream, dream bracket, mise en
abîme, etc.).
Of course this list of dream-types is far from complete and we are open for the suggestion of other types.
As always, we are looking for papers (30 minutes) with a close reading of two or three dreams of the same type by different authors, artists, etc., ideally (but not necessarily) from different periods and/or different national literatures. Examples can be dream reports or fictional dreams in literature and all other media. Preferably contributions should be in English and French but we will also accept German texts. Congress language will be German.
Programm
Dienstag, 3.9.
09.30 Bernard Dieterle (Mulhouse), Kinderträume
10.00 Diskussion
10.45 Kaffeepause
11.15 Johannes Birgfeld (Saarbrücken), Erotic Dreams in Poetry11.45–12.30 Diskussion
Mittagessen
15.00 Benjamin Specht (Erlangen), Dreams of/and Guilt around 1900 (Storm, Hauptmann, Freud)
15.30 Diskussion
16.15 Kaffeepause
16.45 Bernd Auerochs (Kiel), Death-Wish Dreams (Freud, Hebbel, Kafka)17.15–18.00 Diskussion
Mittwoch, 4.9.
09.30 Manfred Engel (Saarbrücken), The Nightmare around 1800
10.00 Diskussion
10.45 Kaffeepause
11.15 Sylvester Bubel (Saarbrücken), Nightmares in Modernist and Postmodernist Literature11.45–12.30 Diskussion
Mittagessen
15.00 Myriam Gindorf (Saarbrücken), Twist-Dreams in Ambrose Bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge und Marc Forster's Stay. Oneiric Narration as a Device in Unreliable Narratives
15.30 Diskussion
16.15 Kaffeepause
16.45 Dorothea Lauterbach (Oxford), Recurring Dreams as a Narrative Device17.15–18.00 Diskussion
Donnerstag, 5.9.
09.00 Christiane Solte-Gresser (Saarbrücken), Vorausgeträumte Geschichte. Zu einem Typus paradoxer Traumerfahrung in fiktionaler Erzählliteratur
09.30 Diskussion
10.15 Kaffeepause
10.45 Ricarda Schmidt (Exeter), Comic Dreams11.15–12.00 Diskussion
12.20 Abfahrt Bahnhof Como
13.45 Flugplatz Milano-Malpensa