Kaiak (Jun 2016)
L’IMMAGINAZIONE ONIRICA AL LAVORO. UN’IMPROVVISAZIONE SENZA REGOLE?
Abstract
Dream is an eminent case when our imagination seems to radically conform to a regime of improvisation. A long-lasting tradition, crowned by the Freudian Traumdeutung, taught us in fact theinterpretability of figments of dreams. Nonetheless, this hermeneutic and/or therapeutic perspective does not improve in any way our knowledge about the function of dream as such. Furthermore, neurosciences are now able to accurately describe the production of the dream, in order to identify its several and surprising neural performances. But they failed to clarify, at least approximately, its however undoubted function from an adaptive and evolutionary standpoint. In this paper the author confronts the no man’s land represented by the «dreamlike imagination» and seeks to explore its improvisation procedure from a philosophical standpoint, which pays attention to the relationship between imagination and language, in order to re-organize their mutual compliance with rules.
