Dreams : A Reader on Religious, Cultural and Psychological Dimensions of Dreaming

by Bulkeley, Kelly

• ISBN13: 9780312293338
• ISBN10: 031229333X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-14
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This innovative collection covers the dream beliefs and practices of various religious and cultural traditions; the dream experiences and theories of particular individuals; and the methods used to investigate and understand dreaming. Contributors include Wendy Doniger, Barbara Tedlock, George Lakoff, J. Allan Hobson, Frederick Crews, Thomas Gregor, Bertram Cohler, and several other leading scholars in religious studies, anthropology, and psychology. Issues of gender, power, sexuality, language, truth, mysticism, healing, consciousness, modernization, the boundaries of Western Science, and the role of personal experience in scholarship are examined.

Author Biography

Kelly Bulkeley teaches at Santa Clara University and is Senior Editor for the journal Dreaming.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	v
Permissions	vii
Introduction: Contemplating Freud's Navel	1	(8)
Section I TRADITIONS
Buddhist Dream Experience: The Role of Interpretation, Ritual, and Gender	9	(20)
Serinity Young
Through the Looking Glass: Dreams in Ancient Egypt	29	(16)
Kasia Szpakowska
Dreams and Dream Interpreters in Mesopotamia and in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)	45	(28)
Scott Noegel
Dreams and Dreaming in Islam	73	(20)
Marcia Hermansen
Sending a Voice, Seeking a Place: Visionary Traditions among Native Women of the Plains	93	(18)
Lee Invin
The Role of Dreams in Religious Enculturation among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea	111	(22)
Roger Ivar Lohmann
Content Analysis of Mehinaku Dreams	133	(34)
Thomas Gregor
Making Dreams Into Music: Contemporary Songwriters Carry On an Age-Old Dreaming Tradition	167	(8)
Nancy Grace
Section II INDIVIDUALS
Kagwahiv Mourning: Dreams of a Bereaved Father	175	(14)
Waud H. Kracke
Reflecting on a Dream in Jungian Analytic Practice	189	(6)
Jane White-Lewis
Group Work with Dreams: The ``Royal Road'' to Meaning	195	(14)
Jeremy Taylor
Wish, Conflict, and Awareness: Freud and the Problem of the ``Dream Book''	209	(14)
Bertram Cohler
Penelope as Dreamer: The Perils of Interpretation	223	(10)
Kelly Bulkeley
Section III METHODS
Western Dreams about Eastern Dreams	233	(6)
Wendy Doniger
The Dream of Scholarship: Some Notes on the Historian of Mysticism as a Dreaming Creative	239	(10)
Jeffrey Kripal
The New Anthropology of Dreaming	249	(16)
Barbara Tedlock
How Metaphor Structures Dreams: The Theory of Conceptual Metaphor Applied to Dream Analysis	265	(20)
George Lakoff
Dreams, Inner Resistance, and Self-Reflection	285	(10)
James J. DiCenso
Turning Away at the Navel of the Dream: Religion and the Body of the Mother at the Beginning and End of Interpretation	295	(12)
Diane Jonte-Pace
Using Content Analysis to Study Dreams: Applications and Implications for the Humanities	307	(14)
G. William Domhoff
The New Neuropsychology of Sleep: Implications for Psychoanalysis	321	(12)
J. Allan Hobson
Consciousness in Dreaming: A Metacognitive Approach	333	(28)
Tracey L. Kahan
Dialogue with a Skeptic	361	(17)
Frederick Crews
Kelly Bulkeley
About the Contributors	378	(3)
Index	381