Sharon Sliwinski: 2 books
Dreaming in Dark Times
Six Exercises in Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
What do dreams manage to say—or indeed, show—about human experience that is not legible otherwise? Can the disclosure of our dream-life be understood as a form of political avowal? To what does a dream attest? And to whom?
Blending psychoanalytic theory with the work of such political...
Mandela's Dark Years
A Political Theory of Dreaming
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Inspired by one of Nelson Mandela’s recurring nightmares, Mandela’s Dark Years offers a political reading of dream-life. Sharon Sliwinski guides the reader through the psychology of apartheid, recasting dreaming as a vital form of resistance to political violence, away from a rational binary of thinking....