Intended Meaning
Dream here differs from sleep and from true vision; it is interwoven, non-coherent images that appear during sleep. It is understood as a sequence of disturbed scenes in which meaning is not completed
The Atom’s Structure in the Atlas
- Type of argument: definitional
- Argument movement: it distinguishes dream as non-coherent images that appear in sleep.
- Key terms: dream, non-coherent images, sleep.
- Degree of centrality: central.
It sets a semantic boundary between dream and other states of sleep, and gives the reader an initial criterion for understanding the term apart from confusion with vision or sleep-dreaming.
Links to Aid Reading
Basis
- Supporting text: «Dream: interwoven, non-coherent images that appear during sleep».
Degree of Documentation
- Level: directly documented
- Meaning of the level: the atom relies on an explicit witness close to the wording of the claim.
- Limits of reading: the formulation above is an analytical summary, and is not treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is transmitted word for word.
Its Function in the Book
Its function here is definitional; it establishes a meaning or conceptual distinction on which Shahrur relies in building the idea.
Editorial Note
The formulation is abstract and works well as a brief terminological entry.