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

Wax, Murray L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0847693740 ISBN 13 : 9780847693740

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 1999

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Murray L. Wax is professor emeritus at Washington University, St. Louis.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0847693740
• ISBN 13: 9780847693740
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible