Paper short abstract:

An analysis of a dream “trilogy” of a 77years old woman, a victim of massive violence took place in 1955 in a Cretan village, during a feast devoted to the protector St Fanourios. The method derives from Levi-Strauss structural analysis of myth. Also concept of “the uncanny” is an analytical tool.

Paper long abstract:

At the night of August 26th 1955, in a Cretan mountain village, during the magnificent feast devoted to the local saint St. Fanourios, many village families became involved in an eruption of successive revenge crimes, during which six people were killed and sixteen were wounded in less than half an hour. In collective memory of the local community this massive violence is experiencing as a traumatic event and since then the worship of local saint is confined to the liturgy in the church.

The paper is an analysis of a dream "trilogy" a 77years old woman narrates. She is a victim of that 'civil war' resulting to be monocular. The dreams to be analyzed are defined by the dreamer as "telepathic" for her and for the community. Taking into account that sentiments of fear or even fright overwhelm the collective memory of these facts up to the present day, the question is about the impact of these facts, as crimes with a specific symbolic burden, for regression into unconscious primal repressions. The results are significations which revive these sentiments of terror in reference to the facts and are expressed in the symbolic language of dreams. The method of analysis of the latent content of dreams derives from the structural analysis of myth by Levi-Strauss. Also, the Freudian concept of "the uncanny" ("Das Unheimliche") is used as an analytical tool.

The participants at the session will have the text of dreams narrations and the paper will concentrate on their analysis.