The young Descartes and the dreams of November

Abstract

This article deals with a decisive dream experience that Descartes lived on the night of November 10, 1619. Our intention is, on the one hand, to highlight the way in which Descartes, in the narrative construction of the aforementioned dreams, makes use of a whole series of materials from its cultural tradition and the biographical circumstances in which he lay. But, on the other hand, we will show how in these dreams it becomes evident, not only a debt with a series of traditions or circumstances in which Descartes was «jected», but how his discourse is pro-jected outside of them.