Visions of the Night: Dreams, Religion, and PsychologySUNY Press, 16.09.1999 - 217 Seiten This wide-ranging exploration of the spiritual and scientific dimensions of dreaming offers new connections between the ancient wisdom of the world's religious traditions, which have always taught that dreams reveal divine truths, and the recent findings of modern psychological research. Drawing upon philosophy, anthropology, sociology, neurology, literature, and film criticism, the book offers a better understanding of the mysterious complexity and startling creative powers of human dreaming experience. For those interested in gaining new perspectives on dreaming, the powers of the imagination, and the newest frontiers in the dialogue between religion and science, Visions of the Night promises to be a welcome resource. |
Inhalt
The Varieties of Religious Dream Experience | 1 |
Root Metaphor Dreams | 7 |
Dreaming and Conversion | 15 |
Where Do breams Come from? | 23 |
Sharing breams in Community Settings | 31 |
Dreams and Environmental Ethics | 39 |
Dreaming in a Totalitarian Society A Winnicottian Reading of Charlotte Beradts The Third Reich of Dreams | 47 |
Dreaming Is Play A Response to Freud | 59 |
Alternative Clinical Theories about Dreams | 137 |
Sleep Laboratory Research on REM Sleep and Dreaming | 139 |
Dreaming and Cognition | 141 |
Content Analysis | 144 |
Nightmares | 146 |
Childrens Dreams | 148 |
Gender and Sexuality | 151 |
Popular Psychology | 154 |
Gods REMS and What Neurology Has to Say about the Religious Meanings of Dreams | 67 |
Interpreting Dreams in Mythological Texts | 77 |
Wisdoms Refuge in the Night Dreams in The Mahabharata The Ramayana and Richard III | 93 |
Dreamily Deconstructing the Dream factory The Wizard of Oz and A Nightmare on Elm Street | 103 |
Dreams within Films films within Dreams | 111 |
Dreaming in Russia August 1991 | 119 |
Religion and Psychological Studies | 129 |
Bibliographical Essays | 131 |
Jung and Analytic Psychology | 134 |
Lucid Dreaming | 157 |
Paranormal Dreams | 160 |
CrossCultural Studies of Dreaming | 162 |
Psychology and the Humanities | 167 |
Psychology and Religion | 170 |
Key Resources in the Study of Dreams | 173 |
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American ancient Near Eastern anthology approaches to dreams basic Beradt Bharata Bulkeley C. G. Jung chapter Children's Dreams clinical cognitive consciousness contemporary content analysis Craven's New Nightmare creative cross-cultural cultural discussion Domhoff Dora Dream Content dream experiences Dream Interpretation dream reports dream research dream studies dream theory dreamer dreamsharing groups Dreamwork edited Elm Street Enkidu explore films Foulkes Freddy Freddy Krueger Freud Functions of Dreaming Gackenbach Gardner and Maier Gilgamesh Heather Hobson human Humbaba Interpretation of Dreams Journal Jung's Jungian LaBerge literary lucid dreaming Masha Meaning of Dreams modern night Nightmare on Elm paranormal dreams play powerful psychoanalytic Psychotherapy reality religion REM sleep role of dreams root metaphor says sexual Sigmund Freud sleep laboratory social society spiritual study of dreams symbolic texts tion types of dreams unconscious understanding University Press waking Western Winnicott Wizard of Oz Women's Dreams