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Jake Fraser, Ph.D.

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Jake Fraser, Ph.D.
Jake Fraser received his PhD in Germanic Studies from the University of Chicago, and is now assistant professor of German and Comparative Literature at Reed College. He specializes in late 18th-early 20th century German literature and philosophy, with emphases in philosophies of time and history and in the history of science and technology. He has published on the intersections of time, memory, and action in authors ranging from Heinrich von Kleist and Franz Kafka to Friedrich Nietzsche and Claude Lévi-Strauss. He is currently working on a book project tentatively entitled The Present's Past: Memory Media and the Afterlives of Events, a study of the ways in which new media technologies—from the daily paper to the computer simulation—gave rise to new theories and experiences of time and memory.
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Working Backwards: “Backwards Causation” and the Temporality of the Unconscious in Pre-Freudian Dream Theory

Jake Fraser, Ph.D.

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The appearance of Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams in 1899 is often thought to have launched a 20th-century fascination with dreams and the unconscious mind. Yet Freud's work (and the use of dreams to draw conclusions about unconscious thought processes) is also the culmination of a now forgotten 19th-century tradition. Under the heading of "working […]