Abstract
As Elvio Fachinelli states when discussing the student movement of 1968, the dream
can function as a stubborn objection of unconscious desire. The purpose of this article is to show
how the dream can be interpreted as a principle of fundamental dissent and under what condi tions it can be politically employed as a margin of resistance, as a refusal to be oppressed or even
erased by a society that considers itself all-encompassing. Whether this society is the Nazi-Fascist
regime, as evidenced by the dreams collected by Charlotte Beradt during the Third Reich, or
whether it is capitalist society, as depicted in the documentary “Dreaming Under Capitalism” by
Sophie Bruneau, the political power of the dream is not simply consoling or utopian; on the con trary, the dream appears to be radically heterotopic, precisely because it is capable of polemically
opening up a potential counter-space that challenges any totalitarian closure
Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] The dream is political. Dream tactics of anti-oppressive resistance |
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Lingua originale | Italian |
pagine (da-a) | 121-134 |
Numero di pagine | 14 |
Rivista | PHI/PSY |
Volume | 3 |
DOI | |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2023 |
Keywords
- dream
- capitalism
- fascism