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Social factors permeate our lives, even affecting the inner world of our dreams. Long a favoured field of examination in psychoanalysis, and more recently the neurosciences, the workings of the sleeping brain are now a focus of sociological analysis. The sociologist Bernard Lahire has authored a pioneering new book that lays the foundations for a new science of dreams.
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