"For his fiftieth birthday Elliot Wolfson has offered himself a dream-book, dazzling and rich, poised against finitude's charge. What an extraordinary gift for readers of poetry and philosophy, for the psychoanalyst companioned by theory! Dropping into intractable regions of thought, Wolfson explores with enthralling precision the edges of asymmetry, prophesy, the alternate logic of dream archeology and often blinding illumination that such a venture implies." -- Avital Ronell, author of Fighting Theory and The Test Drive "Over the last two decades, Elliot R. Wolfson has produced a most remarkable body of scholarship on the Kabbalah. Here, in his new book on the mind-bending paradoxes of the dreamscape and its actualizations in the acts and arts of interpretation, he applies his thought to that mysterious space of the imagination where the dreamer dreams and is in the process dreamt. Understanding, like his rabbinic and kabbalistic sources, the dream as a self-creating text that 'always follows the mouth,' that is, that requires acts of interpretation to become real, Wolfson employs a whole range of interpretive tools to reveal what is concealed within the dreamscape: quantum physics and neuroscience, hermeneutical theory, psychoanalysis, and literary theory, the 'mythologic' or coincidence of opposites, even the philosophy and transcendence of time within Mind as we have it in Buddhist and Hindu idealism. It is in this way that the dream becomes in Wolfson's vision a kind of spontaneous poetry or, as the Jewish sages had it, one-sixtieth of prophecy itself." -- Jeffrey J.

Kripal, author of Authors of the Impossible: The Sacred and the Paranormal "The book's characteristic Wolfsonian achievement is to open to the non-philosopher the significance of philosophical thought without reducing its complexity. The lucidity of the exposition and the clarity and brilliance of Wolfson's thinking is what makes this happen. Equally characteristic is to show how earlier traditions have been engaged in asking these questions. Although much of the text draws on Wolfson's main expertise in Jewish mystical thought, the analysis extends far beyond the confines of that discipline, engaging questions both ontological and epistemological. A book for everyone interested in the phenomenon of dream consciousness." -- Daniel Boyarin, author of Socrates and the Fat Rabbis.