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Informationen zum Autor Benjamin Ehrlich is a Salzburg Global Fellow. His work has appeared in Nautilus and New England Review. He is a Co-Founding Editor of The Beautiful Brain, an online magazine devoted to art and neuroscience. Ben graduated from Middlebury College with Highest Honors in Literary Studies. Klappentext The Spanish anatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) explored the microscopic world of the brain and found a landscape inhabited by distinctly individual cells, later termed neurons. "The mysterious butterflies of the soul," he called them, "whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind." Although he ranks among the greatest scientists in history, the name of the Nobel Prize-winning "father of modern neuroscience" is not as well-known as that of Darwin, Pasteur, Galileo, Einstein, Copernicus, and Isaac Newton.The second half of the nineteenth century saw a revolution in the study of the mind. Cajal was a contemporary of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), whose radical theories would scandalize the next century. Before he was a neuroanatomist Cajal conducted psychiatric experiments and before Freud became a psychiatrist, he worked in neuroanatomy. In public, Cajal spoke respectfully about Freud, but in private, Cajal rejected the man and his theories. In order to disprove Freud's "lies," Cajal started to record his own dreams in a diary, part of a notably personal book project, which he worked on from 1918 until his death in 1934. For reasons unknown, Cajal never published this work. Until recently, it was assumed that the manuscript had been destroyed during the Spanish Civil War.The Dreams of Santiago Ramón y Cajal is this lost dream diary, translated into English for the first time. The text is accompanied by an introduction to the life and work of Cajal, his relationship with the famed Viennese psychoanalyst, and the historical context surrounding the contributions of two great dueling intellects. Zusammenfassung The Dreams of Santiago Ramón y Cajal contains the lost dream diary of the Nobel Prize-winning "father of modern neuroscience" translated into English for the first time. The book explores the complex attitudes of Cajal towards his contemporary Sigmund Freud, whose theories he dismissed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements A Note on the Translation Part 1 The Founder of Modern Neuroscience Chapter 1 Cajal's Legacy Chapter 2 Cajal and Psychology Chapter 3 Cajal and Dream Research Chapter 4 Cajal and Spanish Freudianism Chapter 5 Comparing the Lives of Cajal and Freud Chapter 6 The Effects of Hypnosis and Suggestion Chapter 7 On The Divergence of Psychology and Neuroanatomy Chapter 8 Cajal's Psyche and His Readings of Freud Chapter 9 "The Father of Modern Neuroscience" and His Father Chapter 10 The Dream Diary's Strange Fate Figures Part Two The Dream Diary of Santiago Ramón y Cajal Chapter 11 The Dreams of Cajal Glossary Bibliography Index ...
