Throughout recorded time people have been fascinated by dreams and their meanings. Tribal societies valorize knowledge obtained from dreams and respect possession as a channel for revelation. In contrast, implicit in Western intellectual thought is an image of the human as a non-social atom with a unitary and rational mind, which turns dreaming into an epiphenomenom or, for Freud, a neurosis in miniature. Integrating materials from anthropology, post-Freudian psychoanalysis, social evolution, and the social psychology of Mead, Cooley, James, and Sullivan, this book offers a view of the self and the psyche that provides meaning to the views of traditional peoples on dreams, possession, and the loss of self.
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Drawing on his broad interdisciplinary education in fields ranging from anthropology to psychoanalysis, Professor Wax sets out on a bold, independent course to counter the biases of authoritarianism and a reductionist pragmatism. In the process, he writes a bold, provocative study that explores dreaming as a symbolic activity that plays a central role in the evolution of the human being and his social relationships. (Patrick J. Mahoney )
Wax will persuade even the most skeptical reader that dreams, those seemingly most private of experiences, are in fact eminently social—indeed, that to dream is to be human. A moving book about who we are, who we dream we might be. (Alma Gottlieb )
A lengthy bibliography and a helpful index add to the value of this work for graduates through faculty and for professionals. (V. L. Bullough Choice )
The author's academic background is impressive. Wax's critique of Freud's narrowness and his abusive errors in technique are well done. (Journal Of Trauma & Dissociation )
For anyone who thinks about or works with dreams, especially clinicians wanting to break out of dogmatic molds, Professor Wax’s book is a delight and an inspiration. Refracted through his multiple intelligences—sociological, anthropological, and psychoanalytic—the dream becomes a way into the soul of the dreamer, his inner and social world. (Jonathan Cohen, M.D. )
Wax will persuade even the most skeptical reader that dreams, those seemingly most private of experiences, are in fact eminently social—indeed, that to dream is to be human. A moving book about who we are, who we dream we might be. (Alma Gottlieb )
A lengthy bibliography and a helpful index add to the value of this work for graduates through faculty and for professionals. (V. L. Bullough Choice )
The author's academic background is impressive. Wax's critique of Freud's narrowness and his abusive errors in technique are well done. (Journal Of Trauma & Dissociation )
For anyone who thinks about or works with dreams, especially clinicians wanting to break out of dogmatic molds, Professor Wax’s book is a delight and an inspiration. Refracted through his multiple intelligences—sociological, anthropological, and psychoanalytic—the dream becomes a way into the soul of the dreamer, his inner and social world. (Jonathan Cohen, M.D. )
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Murray L. Wax is professor emeritus at Washington University, St. Louis.
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