Mandela's Dark Years: A Political Theory of Dreaming

Forerunners: Ideas First

by Sharon Sliwinski

Inspired by one of Nelson Mandela’s recurring nightmares, Mandela’s Dark Years offers a political reading of dream-life. Sharon Sliwinski guides the reader through the psychology of apartheid, recasting dreaming as a vital form of resistance to political violence, away from a rational binary of thinking.

This short, provocative study blends political theory with clinical psychoanalysis, opening up a new space to consider the politics of reverie.  

60 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 30, 2015

Reviews

[Gina Herald]

An imagined individual rather than an "imagined community".