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Robert Louis StevensonAutumn 1885, Bournemouth

The dream that gave Stevenson Mr Hyde

Short of money and short of a plot, Stevenson dreamed two scenes, and wrote one of the most famous novellas in English in a matter of days.

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O sonho

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Stevenson had been trying for a long time to write a story about a person's double nature. In his own words, he racked his brains for a plot for two days. On the second night he dreamed the scene at the window, and then a scene in which Hyde, pursued for some crime, took the powder and changed in front of his pursuers.

His family later remembered that his wife Fanny, hearing him cry out in his sleep, woke him, and that he complained she had interrupted a fine nightmare.

De onde vem a história

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was published in January 1886. Stevenson described its origin himself in "A Chapter on Dreams", an essay in Scribner's Magazine in 1888, where he credits much of his storytelling to the little people, his "Brownies", who acted out plots for him while he slept.

He is careful to say that the dream gave him only those scenes; the rest, including the moral meaning, was his waking work. The detail about Fanny waking him comes from family recollections published later, not from the essay.

Como foi interpretado

Pesquisa

Stevenson's essay is one of the earliest detailed descriptions by a writer of using dreams deliberately. Modern research on creativity and sleep agrees with his modest version: dreams supply vivid fragments tied to a problem the dreamer has been working on, and waking judgement does the building.

Psicanálise

A respectable man who turns into his hidden other is almost a textbook image for what psychoanalysis would later call the repressed, and for what Jung would call the shadow. The dream staged it as a chase, which is how many people still dream about the parts of themselves they run from.

Perguntas para seus próprios sonhos

  1. Is there a side of yourself that shows up in dreams more than in daylight?
  2. When you are chased in a dream, do you ever see who is chasing you?
  3. What problem have you been working on long enough that a dream might finish it?

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Fontes

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  1. Robert Louis Stevenson (1888). A Chapter on Dreams. Scribner's Magazine 3(1).

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    • Local da citação: A Chapter on Dreams (referência ainda não conferida)

    Reprinted in Across the Plains (1892).

  2. Deirdre Barrett (2001). The Committee of Sleep. New York: Crown.

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    • Local da citação: chapters on writers (referência ainda não conferida)

    Harvard psychologist on dreams and creative problem solving, with historical examples.

  3. Antonio Zadra, Robert Stickgold (2021). When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep. New York: W. W. Norton.

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    • Local da citação: the NEXTUP model (referência ainda não conferida)

    NEXTUP model: dreaming explores weak, unexpected associations between memories.