The 25 pictures in this book comprise the dream journal of Albert Grass,
founder of the Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society, an organization
that might have been, which was created by Zoe Beloff as part of her projectThe
Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and Its Circle. Beloff created this
hand-drawn prototype for a comic book as the work of Grass, made from perhaps
1936 to the outbreak of World War II in 1939. It seems possible that Grass
originally intended The Dreamer as a comic-book hero in the mold of The
Spirit or Superman, but this conception quickly changed. By chapter three The
Dreamer loses his ability to fly, remains earthbound and the work becomes a
more serious investigation into his own psychic life, many of his anxieties
speaking directly to us today. This edition proposes an early attempt to use
the language of the comic book to graphically manifest the unconscious.
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