Louis Ferdinand Alfred Maury [SEP] native language
Louis Ferdinand Alfred Maury
Louis Ferdinand Alfred Maury (March 23, 1817 – February 11, 1892), was a French scholar and physician, important because his ideas about the interpretation of dreams and the effect of external stimuli on dreams pre-dated those of Sigmund Freud. He is mentioned by Freud in "The Interpretation of Dreams", and by Sebastian Faulks in "Human Traces". He coined the term hypnagogic hallucination and reported a dream that famously inspired Salvador Dalí's painting "Dream Caused by the Flight of
Committee members included Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Jacques Babinet, Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, Edmond Becquerel, Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, Gaétan Delaunay, Hervé Faye, Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, Paul-Auguste-Ernest Laugier, Claude-Louis Mathieu, Louis Ferdinand Alfred Maury and Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau.
On 20 December 1867 Lambert spoke at more length to the Société de géographie and described his plans for the proposed polar voyage and the research he wanted to undertake.
He presented his plan