

Welcome to My Nightmare -or- Gothic Tapestry: Part 2
“Welcome to My Nightmare”.
A sample of Field Notes that can be viewed as the archetypal child's journey through the phantasmogoria of the Gothic tapestry of history as nightmare and the art of darkness. References to "Strange Case of Love and Death" are found after the 40 Field Notes.
1. The Kafkaesque –or- Black Comedy in the Global Village
2. The Grim Reaper in the Global Village –or- Poetics of the Macabre
3. Cultural History of Fears –or- The Age of Anxiety in the Global Village
4. World Trade Centre –or- Fear and Loathing in the Global Village
5. Boulevard of Broken Dreams in the Global Village
6. Dark Side of Visual Culture –or- Schizotypal Masks of Sanity
7. Theatre of Cruelty –or- The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
8. Yerkes-Dodson Law in Dreams –or- The Nightmare of Future Shock
9. Powers of Horror –or- Tapestry of the Nightmare of History
10. Night Terrors –or- Coping with Stress
11. Experiencing the Variety of Nightmares
12. Meaning of Anxiety –or- The Nightmare of Everyday Life
13. Anatomy of Nightmares –or- Collective Dissociative Disorder
14.The Nightmares and Monsters of Psychohistory
15. Symptom Reading of Nightmares –or- Stress and Everyday Life
17. Hysteria and its Discontents –or- On Death and Dying
18. The Anatomy of Monsters –or- The Terrible Mother Nature Archetype
19. Occult Dream Detective –or- English Victorian Imagination
20. Janet Leigh’s Existential Scream –or- Gothic Fear and the Numinous
21. Imps and Magical Thinking –or- The Gothic Flame of Passion
22. Gothic Romance –or- Dating Edward Cullen
23. Haunted –or- The Gothic Return of Repressed Memories
24. Dreams, Visual Arts and Horror Vacui –or- Ontopoetics of Emptiness
25. Tales of Evil and Horror –or- The Films of Wes Craven
26. The Evil Eye of Medusa –or- Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold
27. If Looks Could Kill –or- The Murderous Gaze
28. Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein –or- The Post-Modern Prometheus
29. Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde –or- Civilizations Die from Suicide
30. Below the Belt: Vampire and Wiccans
31. Night of the Living Dead –or- Zombie Survival Guide
32. Gothic Romance –or- Fallen Angel
33. Hollywood’s Anatomy of Murder –or- Dial M for Murder
34. In Cold Blood –or- History of Natural Born Killers
35. On Schizophrenia –or- On Suicide, Killing and War
36. Killers of the Dream –or- White Man’s Burden
37. Children’s Nightmares –or- Sibling Rivalry
38. Hansel and Gretel –or- Thriller
39. Dolls House –or- Dreaming in Norway
40. A Psychodramatic Guide to Nightmare Help
References
1. Robert Miles, Gothic Writing, 1750-1820: A Geneology
2. Anne Williams, Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic
3. Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
4. Joseph Hillis Miller, Topographies
5. Wolfgang Iser, The Fictive and the Imaginary
6. Christopher Caudwell, Studies in a Dying Culture
7. Devendra Varma, The Gothic Flame
8. Ed Cameron, The Psychopathology of the Gothic Romance: Perversion, Neurosis and Psychosis in Early Works of the Genre
9. Bronislaw Malinowski, Magic , Science and Religion
10. Rudolf Otto, The Idea of the Holy
11. Todorov, Tzvetan, The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre
12. Vijay Mishna, The Gothic Sublime
13. Rosemarie Jackson, Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion
14. Jacqueline Howard, The Gothic Novel: A Bahktinian Approach
15. Everett F. Bleiler, The Checklist of Fantastic Literature
16. Ellie Ragland, Essays on the Pleasures of Death
17. Jonathan Dollimore, Political Shakespeare
18. Stéphan Barron, Technoromanticism
19. Maurice Halbwuchs, The Collective Memory
20. Bettina Knapp, Dream and Image
21. Elisabeth Lenk, Die Unbewusste Gesellschaft (The Unconscious Society)
22. Gaynor Kavanagh, Dream Spaces: Memory and the Museum
23. Benjamin B. Wolman, Children’s Fears
24. Deirdre Barrett (ed), Trauma and Dreams
25. Cathy Caruth, Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History
26. Phillipe Ariès, Centuries of Childhood
27. Lloyd deMause, The History of Childhood
28. Horst Richter, Eltern, Kind und Neurose (Parents, Child and Neurose)
29. Alice Miller, Prisoners of Childhood
30. Mario Praz, The Romantic Agony
31. Christian Metz, The Imaginary Signifier
32. Robert T. Eberwein, Film and the Dream Screen
33. Abram Kardiner, Psychological Frontiers of Society
34. Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek, Tiefe (Depth)
35. Otto Kernberg, Aggressivity, Narcissism and Self-Destructiveness in the Therapeutic Relationship
36. Irenus Eibl-Ebesfeldt, Love and Hate: On the Natural History of Basic Behaviour Patterns
37. Daniel Cottom, The Civilized Imagination: A Study of Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, and Sir Walter Scott.
38. Paul Schilder, The Image and the Appearance of the Human Body
39. Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
40. Viktor Turner, The Forest of Symbols
41. Moshe; Lazar (ed), The Anxious Subject: Nightmares and Daymares in Literature and Film
42. Wolfgang Lederer, The Fear of Women
43. Barbara Creed, The Monsterous-Feminine
44. Katherine Anne Ackley (ed), Misogyny in Literature
45. Barbara Creed, Phallic Panic: Film, Horror and the Primal Uncanny
46. Teresa de Lauretis, Alice Doesn’t: Feminism, Semiotics and Cinema
47. Marquis de Sade, The Crimes of Love
48. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs
49. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality
50. Susan Buck-Morss, Dreamworld and Catastrophe. The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West
51. Susan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
52. Karl Deutsch, The Nerves of Government: Models of Political Communication and Control
53. Frederic Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
54. Henry Krips, Fetish: An Erotics of Culture
55. Sigmund Freud, Dora: Fragments of an Analysis of Hysteria
56. Franco De Masi, The Sadomasochistic Perversion
57. Otto Kernberg, Borderline conditions and pathological narcissism
58. M. Cohen, Love Relations: Normality and Pathology
59. Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis
60. Lawrence D. Kritzman, The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the French Renaissance
61. Ian Suttie, The Origins of Love and Hate
62. Joseph H. Berke, The Tyranny of Malice: Exploring the Dark Side of Character and Culture
63. René Girard, Deceit, Desire and the Novel
64. William Ian Miller, The Anatomy of Disgust
65. William Ian Miller, Humiliation
66. William Ian Miller, An Eye for an Eye
67. R.D. Laing, The Politics of the Family
68. David Hillman, Carla Mazzio, The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe
69. Francette Pacteau, The Symptom of Beauty
70. Kathleen P. Long, High Anxiety: Masculinity in Crisis in Early modern France
71. Steven Bruhm, Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction
72. Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Dangerous Bodies: Historicizing the Gothic Corporeal
73. Kelly Hurley, The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism and Degeneration
74. Søren Kerkegaard, Fear and Trembling
75. Martin Seligman, Helplessness: On Depression, Development and Death
76. Jean Piaget, Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood
77. Robert L. Selman, The Growth of Interpersonal Understanding
78. Jacques Lacan, Écrits
79. Jonathan Culler, Structural Poetics
80. Douglas B. Wilson, The Romantic Dream: Wordsworth and the Poetics of the Unconscious
81. Charles Elder, The Grammar of the Unconscious
82. Marcel Danesi, Poetic Logic: The Role of Metaphor in Thought, Language and Culture
83. Owen Barfield, Poetic Diction
84. Søren Kerkegaard, Either/Or
85. Mircea Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries
86. Norman O. Brown, Life against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
87. Erich Fromm, Anatomy of Destructiveness
88. Marshall McLuhan, War and Peace in the Global Village
89. Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization
90. Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
91. Hartmut Böhme, Albrecht Durer, Melancholia I: Im Labyrinth der Deutung
92. Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope
93. A.A. Mitchell, Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis
94. Peter Reitbergen: Europe: A Cultural History
95. Elisabeth Bronfen, The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and its Discontents
96. David J. Hogan, Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film
97. Charlotte Beradt, The Third Reich of Dreams
98. Natalie a. Hewitt, Shakespeare’s influence in the gothic literary tradition, Phd
99. Maggie Kilgore, Rise of the Gothic Novel
100. Aristotle, Poetics
101. Bert O. States, The Rhetoric of Dreams
102. David A. Bell, Shadows of Revolution
103. Alex Schulman, Gothic Piles and Endless Forests; Wollstonecraft Between Burke and Rousseau
104. Fred Botting, Gothic
105. JürgWilli, Couples in Collusion
106. Rollo May, Innocence and Power: A Search for the Sources of Violence
107. Margarita Georgieva, The Gothic Child 108. Jack Zipes, Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
109. Anna Jackson, Karen Coats, Roderick McGillis, The Gothic in Children’s Literature: Haunting the Borders
110. Jean Starobinski, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Transparency and Obstruction
111. Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
112. Carl Gustav Jung, Memories, Dreams and Reflections
113. Jay Sherry, Carl Gustav Jung, Avant guard Conservative, PhD
114. Ronald R. Thomas, Dreams of Authority: Freud and the Fictions of the Unconscious
115. Jewel Spears Broker, Mastery and Escape: T.S. Eliot and the Dialectics of Modernism
116. T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
117. Steffen Hantke (ed), War Gothic in Literature and Culture
118. Jean Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition
119. Giambattista Vico, The New Science
120. Marta Beville, Gothic postmodernism
121. Jonathan Gilbert, The Horror, the Horror, PhD
122. Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Maria Beville (eds), The Gothic and the Everyday: Living Gothic
123. Jack Murray, The Landscapes of Alienation: Ideological Subversion in Kafka, Celine, and Onetti
124. Calvin Hall, Dreams, Life and Literature: A Study of Franz Kafka
125. Patrick Bridgwater, Kafka, Gothic and Fairytale
126. Walter Benjamin, Gesammelte Schrifften
127. Terry Eagleton, Walter Benjamin or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism
128. Patrick H. Hutton, History as an Art of Memory
129. Mary Caruthers, The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture
130. Walter Benjamin, Understanding Brecht
131. Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood Around 1900
132. Shagra Zim, Cognitive Development of Children's Dreams, PhD Thesis
133. Edith Cobb, Ecology of the Imagination in Childhood
134. Margarita Georgieva, The Gothic Child
135. David Punter, Gothic Pathologies
136. Margaret Cohen, Benjamin’s Marxisms, in Peter Osburn (ed), Walter Benjamin
137. Jack Zipes, Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
138. Tanya Jones, The Gothic Fairy Tale
139. Charles Odier, Anxiety and magical thinking
140. Sigmund Freud, Writings on Art and Literature
141. Michael Calderbank, Surreal Landscapes
142. Michael Löwy, Chris Turner, Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History
143. Gyorgy Kepes, Language of Vision
144. Lipman, Steve (1991) Laughter in hell: the use of humor during the Holocaust
145. Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism
146. Wolfgang Leuschner, Einschlafen und Traumbildung
147. Gillian Beer, Darwin’s Plots
148. Irenäus Eibl-Ebesfeldt, Human Ethology
149. Robert Storey, Mimesis and the Human Animal
150. Corinna Wagner, Gothic Evolution
151. Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
152. David Brin, The Transparent Society
153. Jacques Derrida, Disseminations
154. Geoffrey Chaucer, The House of Fame
155. Susan Bernstein, Housing Problems
156. Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality
157. R.G. Collingwood, The Principles of Art
158. Rudolf Arnheim, Art and Visual Perception
159. E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Art
160. Walter Benjamin, Illuminations
161. Paul de Man, Blindness and Insight
162. Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever
163. Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror
164. John Maynard Smith, Evolution and the Theory of Games
165. John Bowlby, Attachment, Separation and Loss
166. Kenneth Burke, Attitudes Towards History
167. Victoria Mills, The Museum as ‘Dream Space’
168. Harold Bloom, The Anatomy of Influence
169. Vance Packard, The Hidden Persuaders
170. Ernst Cassirer, Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
171. Hazard Adams, Philosophy of the Literary Symbolic
172. Richard Maxwell, The Mysteries of Paris and London
173. Matt Hills, The Pleasures of Horror
174. Roger Bastide, The Sociology of the Dream
175. Walter Benjamin, Dream Kitch
176. Margaret Cohen, Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution
177. Walter Benjamin, The Task of the Translator
178. Rich J. Davidson, Klaus R. Scherer, H. Hill Goldsmith (eds), Handbook of Affective Sciences
179. Mathew Brennan, The Gothic Psyche: Disintegration and Growth in Nineteenth-century English Literature
180. Deborah Lupton, Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body 181. C.A. Meier, Healing Dream and Ritual
182. David Taylor, Talking Cure
183. Donald Winnicott, Hate in the Countertransference
184. Phillip Shaw, The Sublime
185. Carl Jung, Wolfgang Pauli, Interpretation of Nature and Psyche
186. Fred Allan Wolf, The Dreaming Universe
187. Martin Myrone, Gothic Nightmares: Fuselli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination
188. J. M. Masson, The Oceanic feeling
189. William B. Parsons, The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling
190. Sigrid Weigel, Body- and Image-space: Re-reading Walter Benjamin
191. Eliane Scary, Dreaming by the Book
192. Anne Marsh, The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire