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1871: A Sound Like the Humming of Bees

In order to prove that almost any kind of dream can, with tolerable certainty, be excited by special classes of stimulants, M. Maury caused a series of experiments to be performed on himself when asleep, which afforded very satisfactory results. … Continue reading

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1940: A Strange Way for an Animal

“The most common voluntary activity….is, by a long shot, participating in experiences that we know are not real. When we are free to do whatever we want, we retreat to the imagination—to worlds created by others, as with books, movies, … Continue reading

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1915: Impermanence

In 1915, Sigmund Freud published a short essay, “On Transience,” in which he addresses in a succinct and poetic way the ideas he had developed for his book Mourning and Melancholia (1917). For Freud, these two states—mourning and melancholia—are different … Continue reading

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