Komninos Zervos may not realize it, but his remarks on dreams are
almost a summary of part of Freud's theory of dreams. A couple years
ago the newspapers reported that some scientists had done experiments
which proved that dreams where actually constructed out of random sense
impressions from the previous day, and much was made of how this
invalidated Freud's views on dreams. In fact, Freud was almost the
first person to realize that dreams are constructed from a "detritus of
sensory impressions" primarily from the day preceding the dream, and he
goes into this in great length. The scientists' discovery, far from
being at odds with Freud's theory of dreams, was a validation of one of
its bases. But then Freud, like Marx, is one of the authors whom people
feel they have every right to criticize even if they have never read a
word of him.


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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his
limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry
reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power
corrupts, poetry cleanses.

                 -- John F. Kennedy
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