Western Rationality and the Angel of Dreams: Self, Psyche, DreamingThroughout recorded time people have been fascinated by dreams and their meanings. Tribal societies valorize knowledge obtained from dreams and respect possession as a channel for revelation. In contrast, implicit in Western intellectual thought is an image of the human as a non-social atom with a unitary and rational mind, which turns dreaming into an epiphenomenom or, for Freud, a neurosis in miniature. Integrating materials from anthropology, post-Freudian psychoanalysis, social evolution, and the social psychology of Mead, Cooley, James, and Sullivan, this book offers a view of the self and the psyche that provides meaning to the views of traditional peoples on dreams, possession, and the loss of self. |
Contents
Evolutionary and CrossCultural Perspectives on Dreaming and Social Life | 3 |
Theoretical Perspectives on the Socialized Self | 13 |
Losing or Multiplying the Self via Dreams or Trance | 27 |
Joseph Freud and the Judaic Tradition | 41 |
INTERPRETING AND MISINTERPRETING DREAMS FREUD BRINGS DREAMS INTO BIOMEDICINE | 55 |
Coca Hypnotism and the Return of the Primitive | 57 |
Who Are the Irmas? What Are Their Narratives? | 65 |
Lost in a Strange City Doras Dreams Freuds Fantasies | 93 |
CONCLUSIONS | 117 |
Dreams within Human Group Life Western Rationality and the Angel of Dreams | 119 |
The Magic of Learning and Teaching | 139 |
Bibliography | 147 |
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