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Created in 1999 and published since 2015 by Editions de la Sorbonne, Revue d’histoire des sciences humaines offers, semi-annualy, papers focused on history of human sciences, from 18th to 21th centuries.
Issues from 1999 to 2011 are available on Cairn.

Latest issue
44 | 2024
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Dream Accounts
Edited by Michaël Roelli, Aude Fauvel and Rémy Amouroux
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For a long time, the history of Western oneirology was summed up as that of Sigmund Freud’s “discovery”, its “anticipations” and its “continuations”. Only in the last fifteen years or so have researchers widened the scope to include other scientific endeavours. Few studies have dealt with the oneirological theories, oneirocritical methods and oneirographic practices that emerged after the Second World War—at a time when psychoanalysis was at its height—or those that were developed and experimented with outside the field of psychology. However, the “wave of dreams” referred to by the poet Louis Aragon in 1924 affected all the human sciences whose interest in unconscious determinisms (psychic, socio-cultural, genetic) grew throughout the twentieth century. In this wave, dreams other than those confided on a couch or to an analysis notebook also came to the fore: those of populations in colonised or trust territories, for example, whose administrators sought to fathom their “inner life”; those of non-human animals, too, which not only revolutionised the neurophysiology of sleep at the end of the 1950s, but also contributed, half a century later, to a fundamental rethink of anthropology. Although dreams are often confined to a debate among psychoanalysts or centred on psychoanalysis, it turns out that they have more broadly been a meeting point between the main disciplines devoted to the study of human beings and their behaviour.

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