The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation
An extraordinary clandestine project ... At once a nocturnal oral history, a collection of parables worthy of Kafka and a revelatory account of despotism internalized ... Startling in their brevity and force ... Conjured long before the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), such dreams seem like Orwellian fables distilled ... Beradt’s collection does not merely catalog the fears of the moment, it records pre-emptive acquiescence signaling an erosion of resistance ... Vivid snapshots of collective unease ... Singular.
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A quite straightforward picture of the psychological effects of propaganda and manipulation upon a populace ... What strikes me, reading these dreams in 2024, is the more structural conclusions Beradt makes about consent, submission, and the manipulation of minds ... Bracing.
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This travelogue through the German unconscious will look chillingly familiar to anyone living in Trump’s America ... Beradt’s study casts an eerie, mesmeric spell ... Though neither a psychoanalyst nor a sociologist, Beradt provided sharply insightful commentary on her subjects’ dreams.
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