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

Wax, Murray L.

 
9780847693757: Western Rationality and the Angel of Dreams: Self, Psyche, Dreaming

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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

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9780847693740: Western Rationality and the Angel of Dreams: Self, Psyche, Dreaming

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ISBN 10 :  0847693740 ISBN 13 :  9780847693740
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 1999
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