ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on wakeful consciousness in its various forms such as perception, cognition, imagination, has translated into a relative neglect of the phenomenon of dreaming, and yet, as explored in this essay with a principal emphasis on Jean-Paul Sartre, even in this ostensible poverty, there is much richness. As Michel Foucault observed in the introduction to his French translation of Ludwig Binswanger's Dream and Existence, Edmund Husserl's Logical Investigations are curiously contemporaneous with the hermeneutic of the Interpretation of Dreams, as each represents a novel attempt by man to capture his meanings and to recapture himself in his significance. Among phenomenological discussions of dreaming beyond Husserl's circle, undoubtedly the most significant, and hence the focus of the chapter, is provided by Sartre in The Imaginary. The splitting of consciousness in the dream imaginary is bereft of a pervasive that is unifying wakeful awareness.
