Dreams of Modernity : Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (Paperback)

1. The lodger; 2. Oedipus express: psychoanalysis and the railways; 3. Railway reading; 4. 'From autumn to spring, aesthetics change': modernity's visual displays; 5. 'A hymn to the movement': the 'city symphony' of the 1920s and 1930s; 6. Staging the 'private theatre': gender and the auto-erotics of reverie; 7. The new biography; 8. European witness: analysands abroad in the 1920s and 1930s; 9. Dreaming and the cinematographic consciousness; 10. Directed dreaming: Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage and the space of dreams; 11. 'In the circle of the lens': Woolf's 'telescopic' story, scene making and memory; 12. Virginia Woolf and the art of the novel.