The oracle of the night: self-knowledge and construction of the future

Abstract

This review intends to present the book "The Oracle of the Night: The History and Science of Dreams" by Sidarta Ribeiro, as a pertinent reading for teacher education, as it approaches relevant topics for integral development and citizen education. The work contributes both through the dense scientific content that it proposes to record and through its stylistic and editorial structure. The story about the challenges to prove Freudian theories - connected to so many others - reveals itself as an accessible example about the rigor and complexity of scientific processes, which today face waves of generalized negationism. The text also has other qualities, above all, for the ethical way in which it conducts its analyses, with distinctions between facts and hypotheses, respectfully confronting various historical, social, and cultural perspectives.