In giving an account of the 'Dialectics of Dream and Awakening', I will stress especially this concept's relation to Benjamin's Freudian concerns. The psychological significance of the concept is key to argue the psychoanalytic theory that Benjamin fuses with Marxism to suggest how the collective themselves make the revolution toward 'the classless society' and utopian future. Benjamin suggests the dream as "causally 'determined'" not only, as Freud would have it, by the unconscious processes of the sleeper, but also by the collective's excessive activity of the material realm. His interest in awakening the collective that dreaming in phantasmagoria by commodified society and desubjectivizing the realm that producing disfigured ideology becomes exactly as his late work on modern-avant garde art and the arcades project(the Passagen-Werk) proceeds. Benjamin insist absolutely that the collective's repressed dream in modern society is dream-archē as the society without class and exploitation. This dream-archē becomes accessible through 'an experiment in the technique of awakening'. The Passagen-Werk's mergence of historical materialism and psychoanalytic theory is its most problematic aspects, largely because Benjamin never clearly worked out the details of this mergence. Benjamin appropriated Freud's psychoanalytic descriptions for his late works, especially "Surrealism", which he criticized the surrealism's activity and art works from historical-political aspects. In this paper I have discussed surrealism's photography as the image-room for the collective's dream and awakening, in which 'the optical unconscious' can be developed and represented, by inter-reading between the Benjamin's theory on photography and Freud's theory of dream interpretation.

In giving an account of the 'Dialectics of Dream and Awakening', I will stress especially this concept's relation to Benjamin's Freudian concerns. The psychological significance of the concept is key to argue the psychoanalytic theory that Benjamin fuses with Marxism to suggest how the collective themselves make the revolution toward 'the classless society' and utopian future. Benjamin suggests the dream as "causally 'determined'" not only, as Freud would have it, by the unconscious processes of the sleeper, but also by the collective's excessive activity of the material realm. His interest in awakening the collective that dreaming in phantasmagoria by commodified society and desubjectivizing the realm that producing disfigured ideology becomes exactly as his late work on modern-avant garde art and the arcades project(the Passagen-Werk) proceeds. Benjamin insist absolutely that the collective's repressed dream in modern society is dream-archē as the society without class and exploitation. This dream-archē becomes accessible through 'an experiment in the technique of awakening'. The Passagen-Werk's mergence of historical materialism and psychoanalytic theory is its most problematic aspects, largely because Benjamin never clearly worked out the details of this mergence. Benjamin appropriated Freud's psychoanalytic descriptions for his late works, especially "Surrealism", which he criticized the surrealism's activity and art works from historical-political aspects. In this paper I have discussed surrealism's photography as the image-room for the collective's dream and awakening, in which 'the optical unconscious' can be developed and represented, by inter-reading between the Benjamin's theory on photography and Freud's theory of dream interpretation.

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