The Call of Cthulhu: A Pioneering Effort in Empirical Dream Research

Posted by Kelly Bulkeley on December 12, 2012 · 1 Comment

H.P. Lovecraft (pictured to the left) wrote the short story “The Call of Cthulhu” in 1926, and first published it in 1928 in the magazine Weird... [Read more of this post]

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Mary Shelley’s Baby Comes Back to Life

Posted by Kelly Bulkeley on March 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

In February of 1815 a baby girl was born two months prematurely to Mary Godwin, seventeen years old at the time, and the poet Percy B. Shelley. Twelve... [Read more of this post]

Filed under Film & Art · Tagged with baby, death, Frankenstein, Freud, gender, Mary Shelley, mourning, Percy Shelley, science, wish fulfillment

Nietzsche’s Prophetic Childhood Dreams of Death

Posted by Kelly Bulkeley on February 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment

In Ronald Hayman’s 1980 biography Nietzsche: A Critical Life, he mentions two dreams that came to Friedrich Nietzsche early in his life. 1. “I heard... [Read more of this post]

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Freud and Neuroscience: A Return to Origins

Posted by Kelly Bulkeley on September 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment

A chapter I wrote with that title appears in the recently published book Disciplining Freud on Religion: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences,... [Read more of this post]

Filed under Psychology and Brain-Mind Science · Tagged with Freud, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, religion, William B. Parsons