Western Rationality and the Angel of Dreams : Self, Psyche, Dreaming Hardback
by Murray L. Wax
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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.
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- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date:01/09/1999
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- ISBN:9780847693740
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date:01/09/1999
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- ISBN:9780847693740