Trauma Talk by Siri Husvedt

“…At the crossroads between theoretical reflections, autobiographical and fictional writings by the author, memories and dreams, not to mention essays by philosophers, psychoanalysts and neuroscientists, this extremely personal and creative paper aims at defining the specificity of trauma narratives – such an endeavor being conceived as essentially paradoxical. …”
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John Ruskin, William Morris and Walter Pater: From Nature to Musical Harmony in the Decorative Arts by Martine Lambert-Charbonnier

“…Patterns designed by Morris were loved by aesthetes who wanted their homes to mirror their dreams and aspirations and who embraced Walter Pater’s epicurean aesthetics. …”
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David Lynch’s Los Angeles: Control and Liberation through the Cinematic Image by Jakob Jurisch

“…In my article, I will analyze how these films take stock of American West Coast lives of the late 20th and early 21st century, on the one hand providing a psychodrama of dreams gone bust, while on the other exploring the potential for a new iconography.…”
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Enlightenment and Identity : Franklin, Work, and Play by Michael Zuckerman

“…America was seen by Europeans as a place of possibility from the first and none better than Benjamin Franklin proved these democratic dreams could become reality, recent biographers seeing him as the first American. …”
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Houses of Horror or Magical Kingdoms? Past Times Revisited with Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar by Lois Marie Jaeck

“…Their fictional mergers of past and present insinuate the reversibility/ambiguity of dreams/representation with physical reality. They thus recognize the authentic presence of Pre-Columbian culture in contemporary Latin American societies and put into question the validity of European/North American materialism.…”
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O universo visual dos xamãs wauja (Alto Xingu) by Aristóteles Barcelos Neto

“…This paper analyses the shaman’s visual experiences in dreams and trances as elements in the conceptualisation of the four main types of non-human beings (« animal-people », « clothing », « monster », and « animal ») and of their relationships to the Wauja. …”
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The Black Ecstatic by Desirée de Jesús

“…My video essay ‘The Black Ecstatic’ concentrates on a sequence in this musical and explores how attending to sound enables us to think across generations of Black diasporic dreaming, striving, believing, and resisting bodies.…”
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Landscape Design: Twenty-Two Ideas for a Low-Care, Low-Cost Landscape by Gail Hansen

“…Many homeowners desire a beautiful landscape but are often discouraged by the lack of time and money needed to create and care for the garden of their dreams. A pleasing, low-care, low-cost landscape is possible, however, with careful planning, appropriate plant choices, and a thoughtful design. …”
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Rêves de fleurs et rêves de fruits : une construction andine du genre by Palmira La Riva González

“…Dreams of flowers and fruits. The Andean construction of gender. …”
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Landscape Design: Twenty-Two Ideas for a Low-Care, Low-Cost Landscape by Gail Hansen

“…Many homeowners desire a beautiful landscape but are often discouraged by the lack of time and money needed to create and care for the garden of their dreams. A pleasing, low-care, low-cost landscape is possible, however, with careful planning, appropriate plant choices, and a thoughtful design. …”
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Agile Education: Luisa Collina on the evolution of Design Schools by Valentina Auricchio

“…Job positions are changing, students are changing, together with their needs and dreams, technologies evolve and new forms of collaboration are arising, but what can universities do to promptly react to global processes? …”
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« I am content with tentativeness from day to day » : Thomas Hardy et le parti pris poétique du tâtonnement by Laurence Estanove

“…This deliberate artistic preference for uncertainty is visible in the poet’s hesitant stances, wavering between harsh renunciation and the relief of conscious dreaming. The Hardyan approach to life is therefore essentially a « tentative » one, and Hardy’s work functions as a set of impressions, « a series of seemings ». …”
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Alexithymia and Emotional Deficits Related to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Investigation of Content and Process Disturbances by Ewa A. Ogłodek

“…PTSD is associated with intrusive memories, distressing dreams, dissociative reactions, avoidance of trauma-related stimuli, negative mood and sense of well-being, increased arousal and irritability, and clinically significant distress and impaired functioning. …”
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Madrid, la ciudad quimera by Bénédicte Brémard

“…For the protagonists in the films studied, Madrid is both a screen on which they project their dreams and a monstrous figure capable of swallowing them and against which they have to fight. …”
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Les arènes espagnoles sous le franquisme : un espace de « contre-pouvoir » ? by Justine Guitard

“…Viewed in this light, the toreros had the capacity to nourish dreams, including that of freedom.…”
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On Yanomami ceremonial dialogues: a political aesthetic of metaphorical agency by José Antonio Kelly Luciani

“…This paper is devoted to describing and analyzing these ceremonial dialogues, taking a closer look at a. the significance of their tropic nature; b. the role played by knowledge acquired in dreams; and c. the manner in which « naming » the forest socializes space, peopling it not only with communities, but also with resources and exchange possibilities. …”
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LA FRUSTRATION IDENTITAIRE. QUELQUES IDÉES DE MIHAI MITREA-CELARIANU SUR L’ÉCOLE ROUMAINE DE COMPOSITION by Luana STAN

“…His way of writing music was largely influenced by the modern western music, the New Cinema and the New Novel (Alain Robbe-Grillet, Alain Resnais), the serialism, Karlheinz Stockhausen and the dreams theory. After the Romanian revolution (1989), many composers tried to express their point of view about the existence or the absence of a “Romanian music school” and so often, their opinion was influenced by their own situation as expatriate people in different occidental countries. …”
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Baczko, Rousseau and Polish Republicanism by Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz

“…Starting from an in-depth knowledge of secondary literature and Polish sources, including the dossier provided to Rousseau by Count Michal Wielhorski, the author shows how Baczko succeeded in offering an innovative reading of this text of Rousseau, understood not so much as an attempt to apply the theories of the Social Contract to Polish reality, but as an encounter of idées-forces, images and social dreams, an encounter based on the reciprocity of an exchange that affects the interlocutors, the conservative Polish nobility and the theorist of popular sovereignty. …”
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God's Holy Spirit: a back-story from the Joseph narrative (Genesis 37-50) by Barbara Green

“…The larger Holy Spirit and discernment context of the story is the dreams of Joseph. …”
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