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Efforts to shed light on the dreams of the individual with the help of the
doctrine of the historical dreams of the collective.
(We teach that, in the stratification of the dream, reality never simply is, but
rather dmt it strikes the dreamer. And I treat of the arcades precisely as
though, at hottom, they were something that has happened to me)
We have to wake up from the existence of our parents. In this awakening, we
have to give an account of the nearness of that existence. Obedience as
category of nearness in religious education. Collecting as profane category
of nearness; the collector interprets dreams of the collective.
Freud's doctrine of the drean1 as a phenomenon of nature. Drean1 as historical
phenomenon.
Opposition to Aragon: to work through all this by way of the dialectics of
awakening, and not: to be lulled, through exhaustion, into "dream" or I\my_
thology!' What are the sounds of the awakening morning we have drawn
into our dreams? "Ugliness," the "old-fashioned" are merely distorted
morning voices that talk of our childhood.
No. 9
Thesis and antithesis are to be drawn together into the dream-variationimage
< Traurn-Wandel-Bild>. The aspects of splendor and misery attaching
to the arcades are dream vision. The dialectical reversal in synthesis is
awakening. Its mechanism. How we free ourselves from the world of our
parents dlrough cunning. Antinomy of the sentimental. On the hallucinatory
function of architecture. Dream images that rise up into the waking
world.
Epitome of the false redemption:Jugendstil. It proves the law according to
which effort brings about its opposite.
111e motif of dialectic should be delineated specifically in reference to
perspective
luxury and fashion
Theory of awakening to be developed on the basis of the theory of boredom.
Theory of perspective in connection with Flaubert. Perspective and plush.