The Great Book of Dream Interpretation - Ibn Sirin Muhammad

Editions Albouraq 2004. Good condition

It is in this book that the revenge of the imaginary on censorship, of the playful on the spirit of seriousness, of the pathetic human on the sacredness that has become abstract and too learned to support deviations and emotions will be attempted. (...) Such is the challenge of this work: to find the paths of escape through the narration of the wanderings of the soul of the disciplined Muslim in a religion that has made lucidity a categorical imperative. How indeed can we be forgiven for the audacity of someone who recounts the most ignominious perversion, the most madly sacrilegious profanation, that is to say everything that sucks us into the abysses of fantasies? Answer: it is only possible in this non-place where the innocence of the dream suspends the codes of logic, morality and religion. Throughout this book, it is the dreamer who is afraid of the monstrosity of his dream and it is the interpreter who will harass him to make him say everything, to flush out his self-censorship and his omissions, to untie his metaphors - so that the dream scene is finally revealed.