Dream Life, Wake Life: The Human Condition Through Dreams - Couverture rigide

Globus, Gordon G.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0887063586 ISBN 13 : 9780887063589

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1987

Synopsis

Investigates the human condition through dreaming.

Attempts to understand the human condition through dreaming reach back to antiquity, especially in such classical Indian philosophical texts as the Rg Veda and the Upanisads. In a more contemporary vein, Dream Life, Wake Life continues this investigation, as it views the dream as an open window on the waking human condition.

The book discusses the major twentieth-century contributions to dream theory, beginning with Freud's 1900 psychoanalytical theory of dreaming and continuing through Jung's transpersonal and Boss's existential approaches. Recent phenomenological, cognitive, and biological developments are also considered.

Dream Life, Wake Life addresses human creativity as illuminated by dreaming. While Freud held a "transformative" view of dreaming in which dream life is secondhand, formed by combining memory traces of diverse past waking experiences into novel compositions, Gordon G. Globus sees the process as creative, the fundamental creative action inherent in the human condition.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gordon G. Globus, MD , is Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California at Irvine, and Director of Training and Program Development at the University of California Irvine Psychiatry Service, Capistrano by the Sea Hospital.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0887063586
• ISBN 13: 9780887063589
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
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• Personne responsable: non disponible