Dream Cultures: Explorations in the Comparative History of Dreaming

David Shulman, Guy G. Stroumsa

Oxford University Press, 08/07/1999 - 336 páginas

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.

Índice

• Introduction: 3
• Dreams of Interpretation in Early Chinese Historical and Philosophical Writings: 17
• Dreaming the Self in South India: 43
• The Dreams and Dramas of a Jealous Hindu Queen: 74
• Sharing and Interpreting Dreams in Amerindian Nations: 87
• Mythic Dreams and Double Voicing: 104
• Dream Interpretation in a Prosperous Age? Artemidorus the Greek Interpreter of Dreams: 121
• On the Mantic Meaning of Incestuous Dreams: 143
• Idolum and Imago Roman Dreams and Dream Theories Hubert Cancik: 169
• Dreams and Visions in Early Christian Discourse: 189
• Communication with the Dead in Jewish Dream Culture: 213
• Astral Dreams in Judaism Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries: 235
• Dreaming Analyzed and Recorded Dreams in the World of Medieval Islam: 252
• The Liminality and Centrality of Dreams in the Medieval West: 274
• Engendering Dreams The Dreams of Adam and Eve in Miltons Paradise Lost: 288
• The Cultural Index of Freuds Interpretation of Dreams: 303
• Index: 315

Informação bibliográfica

• Título: Dream Cultures: Explorations in the Comparative History of Dreaming
• Editores: David Shulman, Guy G. Stroumsa
• Editora: Oxford University Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0195352599, 9780195352597
• Número de páginas: 336 páginas