A Note on Attribution
This title belongs to Louis Althusser’s posthumously published writings. Althusser (1918–1990) was a French Marxist philosopher whose major publications include For Marx (1965) and Reading Capital (co-authored, 1965). Des rêves d’angoisse sans fin (English: Endless Nightmare Dreams) is a posthumous collection of his written accounts of his own dreams, published in French in 2018.
Context on Althusser’s Actual Work
Althusser’s interests encompassed the psychological and subjective dimensions of ideology, and he engaged with psychoanalytic theory, including through his own experience of analysis. The dream accounts in this volume are a more personal and unconventional part of his output than his theoretical writings, and they are often read alongside his autobiographical text The Future Lasts a Long Time (published posthumously in 1992).
Readers seeking Althusser’s writings on subjectivity, desire, or the unconscious may consult this collection together with his other texts on psychoanalysis and ideology.
