Western Rationality and the Angel of Dreams: Self, Psyche, Dreaming

Name: Western Rationality and the Angel of Dreams: Self, Psyche, Dreaming
SKU: INR-9780847693757
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SKU: INR-9780847693757 Category: All Books Tags: Psychology, Social Psychology, Social Science, Movements, Ingram, Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, Cultural & Social, Freud, Sigmund, Dreams, Dream Interpretation

Description

Throughout 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.

Author: Wax, Murray L

Topic: Archaeology / Anthropology
Media: Book
ISBN: 847693759
Language: English
Pages: 182