Dream Cultures Explorations in the Comparative History of Dreaming
by Shulman, David; Stroumsa, Guy G.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-07-08
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
This volume offers a comparative, cross-cultural history of dreams. The essays examine a wide range of texts concerning dreams, as culled from a rich variety of religious contexts: China, India, the Americas, classical Greek and Roman antiquity, early Christianity, and medieval Judaism and Islam. Taken together, these pieces constitute an important first step toward a new understanding of the differences and similarities between the ways in which different cultures experience the universal yet utterly unique world of dreams.
Table of Contents
| Contributors | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Notes | p. 13 |
| References | p. 13 |
| China and India | p. 15 |
| Dreams of Interpretation in Early Chinese Historical and Philosophical Writings | p. 17 |
| Dreaming the Self in South India David Shulman | p. 43 |
| Notes | p. 71 |
| Notes | p. 72 |
| The Dreams and Dramas of a Jealous Hindu Queen | p. 74 |
| Notes | p. 83 |
| References | p. 83 |
| Amerindia | p. 85 |
| Sharing and Interpreting Dreams in Amerindian Nations | p. 87 |
| Notes | p. 100 |
| Mythic Dreams and Double Voicing | p. 104 |
| References | p. 117 |
| Mediterranean Classical and Late Antiquity | p. 119 |
| Dream Interpretation in a Prosperous Age? | p. 121 |
| Notes | p. 139 |
| References | p. 141 |
| On the Mantic Meaning of Incestuous Dreams | p. 143 |
| Notes | p. 166 |
| Notes | p. 167 |
| Idolum and Imago Roman Dreams and Dream Theories | p. 169 |
| Notes | p. 185 |
| Notes | p. 187 |
| Dreams and Visions in Early Christian Discourse | p. 189 |
| Communication on with the Dead in Jewish Dream Culture | p. 213 |
| Notes | p. 230 |
| Notes | p. 231 |
| Middle Ages and Modern West | p. 233 |
| Astral Dreams in Judaism | p. 235 |
| Notes | p. 247 |
| Notes | p. 250 |
| Dreaming Analyzed and Recorded | p. 252 |
| Notes | p. 268 |
| Notes | p. 271 |
| The Liminality and Centrality of Dreams in the Medieval West | p. 274 |
| Notes | p. 285 |
| Notes | p. 286 |
| Engendering Dreams | p. 288 |
| Notes | p. 301 |
| Notes | p. 302 |
| The Cultural Index of Freud's | p. 303 |
| References | p. 314 |
| Notes | p. 314 |
| Index | p. 315 |
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