Dream and culture an anthropological study of the western intellectual tradition
Title:
Dream and culture an anthropological study of the western intellectual tradition
Author:
Parman, Susan.
ISBN:
9780313020018
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Publication Information:
New York : Praeger, 1991.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 132 p.)
Contents:
Preface; 1 The Cultural Uses of Dreams; 2 From Oneiros to Daimon: The Interiorization of the Sacred Other in Greek Conceptions of the Dream; 3 True and False Dreams in the Judeo-Christian Tradition: Neoplatonist Dream Theories and Biblical Dreams; 4 Medieval Epistemology and Allegory; 5 The Romance of the Rose and Other Allegorical Dream Visions: Medieval and Modern Voices; 6 Learning to Cultivate One's Garden: Reason and Reality During the Renaissance; 7 The Romance of the Mushroom: Awakening in the Garden of Divine Garbage; 8 Post-Freud Postscript; Bibliography; Index.
Abstract:
Parman contends that in order to understand dreams we must first of all understand the cultural context within which they are expressed. Certainly we cannot 'interpret' a dream without some preliminary grasp of indigenous notions of psychology, cosmology, and epistemology. Readers are therefore introduced to everything from classical notions of the self through the modern schools of rationalism and psychoanalysis. This book brilliantly shows the vast shifts in Western presuppositions regarding dreams. Parman's insistence on an anthropological approach to dreams constitutes a healthy antidote t.
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