Sex, Symbols and Dreams [Paperback]

Janice H. Baylis (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0917738055 | ISBN-13: 978-0917738050 | Publication Date: March 1997 | Edition: 1

A 3-in-1 book: (1) defines and gives examples of seven symbols systems and their sub-sets (2) examples of sexual imagery functioning in each sub-set category (3) how comic strips use the symbolic links to elicit humor. Also focuses on how dreams relate to practical areas of daily living, namely, health, finances, occupation, relationships, creativity, character and spiritual development. Charts summarize the concepts for easy use.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Exposing the logic and system behind the seemingly bizarre is the special genius of Sex, Symbols & Dreams. Part I demonstrates on what basis dream-mind substitutes an image as a reference to a related idea, activity, feeling - meaning. Baylis proceeds by inductive reasoning from astute observation of waking language, the history of dream interpretation and even cartoon humor, to the formulation of generalizations supported by empirical data. The result is this insight. "Dream images and their referent meanings are two sides of an equivalent equation. There is a sufficiency of similarity in regard to the areas compared such that one can substitute for the other." -- The Dream Tree, July 1997

Think of Sex, Symbols & Dreams as a tour guide to your nightly journeys. Janice Baylis has done a wonderful service by compiling numerous dream samples and helpful charts so that the reader may work on his or her own dreams. -- Shifting Times, Summer 1997

From the Publisher

When Janice Baylis writes it is to present important new information about our night dreams. Her first book, SLEEP ON IT! The Practical Side of Dreaming, was a pioneer project. When the usual emphasis was on dreams in therapy she focused on dreams as daily living guidance. SEX, SYMBOLS & DREAMS is also a first-of-its-kind dream book. It reveals the associative linking, thinking modus-operandi of the dream-mind. Plus she demonstrates a new slant on sexual symbology. Baylis has a genius for seeing connections within the dream and between dreams and life.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 242 pages
• Publisher: Sun Man Moon Inc; 1 edition (March 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0917738055
• ISBN-13: 978-0917738050
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,484,889 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Janice Baylis, PhD., born in 1928, is a retired Reading Specialist Teacher and Community College Dream-study Instructor.
In 1959 her car-pool passenger, Mabel, phoned at 6am asking to change their meeting spot to around the corner. That same morning at 7am Mabel was getting into Janice's car. They heard a loud CRASH!
They rounded the corner and passed their regular meeting spot. There was a small airplane landed upside down in the corner of the store parking lot WHERE THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN! Mabel explained that she had dreamed it during that night.
Mabel's life-saving, pre-cognitive, warning dream started Janice on her life-long, self-directed and academic study of dreaming. Her student's dreams and the Edgar Cayce dream material focused Janice on the practical side of dreaming. At prodding from her students in 1977 she authored "SLEEP ON IT! The Practical Side of Dreaming".
BA in Education, Occidental College 1950.
MA in Psychology, Pepperdine University 1979.
PhD. in Psychology, Columbia Pacifica University 1981.

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Arrival at unification with the Self, Superconsciousness, the Divine, a unitive experience., January 31, 2008

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This review is from: Sex, Symbols and Dreams (Paperback)

This is absolutely, by far, the best book on dream interpretation there is. It is no simple dram dictionary, but rather an instruction manual for learning to interpret your own dreams.

While there is universal, archetypal dream content, and a sort of universal structure to dreams, Baylis shows how each person has their own peculiar dream grammar, and how to find out and read your own.

This book, in addition to The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols, are absolute must-haves for any respectable dream interpreter.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highlighted with numerous anecdotes and references, January 5, 2003

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This review is from: Sex, Symbols and Dreams (Paperback)

Sex, Symbols, & Dreams by educator and dream interpretation expert Janice Hinshaw Baylis is a thoughtful, in-depth discussion of sexual imagery and symbols in dreams; their meaning; their reflection upon life; the depth of Freudian style dreams about sexual issues; and much, much more. An extensive analysis highlighted with numerous anecdotes and references, to both the sensual and unconscious worlds, document Sex, Symbols, & Dreams as an invaluable and enthusiastically recommended reading for students of psychology, human sexuality, metaphysics, and a welcome addition to the growing library of dream interpretation literature and analysis.