Just watched part of Zoe Beloff's curated show of the "Dreamland: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and its Circle 1926-1972". the organization seemed to be a bunch of ordinary working class citizens from Coney Island yet all had the same aspirations to follow Freudian psychoanalysis of their dreams to "explore their inner life, to share their dreams with each other and in doing so attempted to free the psyche from the constraints of class and of cultural and sexual mores of their time."
I found this incredibly exciting especially since these explorations of the mind took the relatively new medium of film. These surreal films which depicted members' dreams are incredible insight into the lavish inner life of these ordinary folk. The film I saw in particular was called "The Midget Crane" where upon analysis discerned that the dreamer had a yearning to tower over his boss and employers.
It is this kind of cerebral exploration that I find incredible. Even in the mid 20's ordinary people were dissecting their thoughts and dreams in the hopes of making sense of themselves and the world.
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