The multiplicity of dreams : memory, imagination, and consciousness /

Explores the various approaches to the study of dreaming, including the theories of Freud and Jung, and from sleeping laboratories, anthropology, psychiatry, and cognitive psychology. Identifies and classifies types of dreams, and discusses such topics as symbolic meaning, dreams of young children,

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hunt, Harry T., 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1989.
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Table of Contents:
  • Dream studies and the fundamental question of meaning
  • Further antinomies of dreams, dreaming, and dream research
  • Pax memoria: Memory versus imagination in the psychology of dreaming
  • Problems in the definition of dreaming
  • The multiplicity of dreaming in anthropology, the ancient world, and the nineteenth century
  • Basic dimensions of the dream diamond
  • Specific imaginative-intuitive faculties as forms of dreaming
  • Lucid dreams and nightmares: The transition to formal self-reference
  • Archetypal and titanic dreams: Abstract imageries of formal self-reference
  • Freud, Jung, and culture pattern dreams: Archetypal imagination versus cultural programming
  • Narrative structures: Story grammar versus imagistics
  • Thevisual-spatial sid of dream formation
  • Dreaming: Deconstruction and reconstruction.