[lit-ideas] Dreaming: A Philosophical Analysis
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:54:16 EST
In a message dated 11/16/2009 3:59:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
palma@xxxxxxxx writes:
> what a load
>
>
> "last night I dreamt of my mother and tomorrow I'll dream of my father.
I'll
> make good subject for psychoanalysis"
>
> what is that blocks this sentence?
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A load. Why is it that the implication is not "cream"?
Malcolm has this book on "Dreaming". The problem is that academia cannot
find a niche to have it in curricula. For under what course would you teach
it.
The problem with dreaming is not so much the "x" -- in "I'll dream of x",
but the 'of'.
Consider
I'm dreaming of a White Christmas.
Surely the person, or utterer, Malcolm claims, cannot be _dreaming_ if he
is saying that he is dreaming (it is the anti-performative).
What a closer analysis shows is that 'dream' is past-reflective, while
'die' is future-prospective.
Cheers,
JLS
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