If dreams are the royal road to the unconscious, how do writers, poets, dramatists, and novelists use dreams to explore those intangible truths that the report of conscious experience fails adequately to convey?
Salley Vickers’ acclaimed novels explore unconscious processes, often through the evocation of metaphysical forces, gods, spirits, angels, and, in her latest forthcoming novel, The Gardener, the fairies of old England. In this free Zoom talk, she will consider the varied uses of dream in ancient literature, Shakespeare, and children’s literature as well as touching lightly on her own work.
