Foreword: Dreams, trauma and awakening - Max Silverman Introduction: Reclaiming the oneiric - Emily-Rose Baker and Diane Otosaka Part I: Dream images 1 Dream images, psychoanalysis and atrocity: Pierre Fédida and Georges Didi-Huberman - Nigel Saint 2 Dreaming and collecting dreams in occupied France: Emil Szittya's Illustrated Collection of 82 Dreams - Magdolna Gucsa 3 Dreams and thresholds: The violence of doors that never close in Magritte, Kafka and Buñuel - Michiko Oki 4 Condemned to oblivion: Concentrationary cinema and oneiric representation in Claire Denis' High Life - Rob Hether Part II: Dreams as sites of resistance 5 Traumatic dreams as sites of witness and resistance in the life and work of Ingeborg Bachmann - Sharon Weiner 6 The Third Reich of Dreams: Resisting fascism through the oneiric unconscious - Emily-Rose Baker 7 Living and resisting intersectional oppression through ballroom: Dreams and the dreamlike in Pose (2019) - Lydia Ayame Hiraide 8 Dreams, justice and spectrality in Rêver peut-être (Perchance to Dream) by Jean-Claude Grumberg - Diane Otosaka Part III: Violent states 9 Dreams, repetition and the real in Marie NDiaye's Ladivine - Insook Webber 10 Dreaming the unthinkable: The cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos - Christopher Kul-Want 11 'My hell dream': Moving from trauma to witness in the nightmares of Bronx Gothic -Carolyn Chernoff and Kristen Shahverdian 12 Shit, blood and sperm: The Nazi perpetrator's hallucinations and nightmares in Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones - Helena Duffy Afterword: Archiving the oneiric - Emily-Rose Baker and Diane Otosaka Index.