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Mandela’s Dark Years

A Political Theory of Dreaming

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Sharon Sliwinski

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.

This short, provocative study blends political theory with clinical psychoanalysis, opening up a new space to consider the politics of reverie.

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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • The Prisoner’s Nightmare
  • Dream-Thinking
  • Dream-Work as Civil Defense
  • A Discourse That Acts
  • Dreaming as a Practice of Freedom
  • Dream Matters
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes

Metadata

  • edition
    1
  • isbn
    978-1-4529-5856-9
  • issn
    2373-5074
  • publisher
    University of Minnesota Press
  • publisher place
    Minneapolis, MN
  • restrictions
    Please see the Creative Commons website for details about the restrictions associated with the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
  • rights
    Mandela’s Dark Years: A Political Theory of Dreaming by Sharon Sliwinski is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
  • rights holder
    Sharon Sliwinski
  • rights territory
    World
  • series number
    8
  • series title
    Forerunners: Ideas First
  • version
    1.0
  • doi
    https://doi.org/10.5749/9781452958569

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