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Abstract
This essay explores the phenomenon of insomnia and traces its mythological history while also applying it to concepts found in psychoanalysis and phenomenology. The author, drawing on authors such as Otto Fenichel, James HIllman, and Sigmund Freud attempts to uncover the ways this phenomenon is lived psychologically. By returning to lived-experience, the author asks how a human science psychology, informed by rich accounts of lived-experience, can learn from the philosophers and analysts? How can it understand and pay homage to this uniquely human experience, experienced with great suffering and seduction?