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At first glance, you might read the title and dismiss this book as a superficial or muddled attempt to integrate widely disparate fields of study. You would be mistaken. Anderson takes the reader on a challenging, mind-expanding trip that prompts rereading and contemplation, or shall I say, “dreaming.” She makes links at several levels: between contemporary psychoanalysis, philosophy, and recent advances in neuroscience; interior brain functioning and cortical control and modification; perception/cognition/representation, and subjective/intersubjective affective experience; and unconscious and conscious. Most importantly, she emphasizes the dialectic nature of these pairings and attempts to convey this in the very process of writing her book. I say “attempts” because Anderson's ambitious, highly condensed writing ebbs and flows, constantly shifting perspectives, with multiple levels of discourse and affective and cognitive engagement with the reader.