The Dream and Human Societies / G. E. Von Grunebaum and Roger Caillois.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grunebaum, Gustave E. von (Gustave Edmund), 1909-1972, editor.

Caillois, Roger, 1913-1978, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dreams.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1966]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Contributors

Contents

The Dream and Human Societies

1. Introduction: The Cultural Function of the Dream as Illustrated by Classical Islam

2. Logical and Philosophical Problems of the Dream

3. The Neurophysiological Problem of Sleep

4. The Psychophysiology of Dreaming

5. The Dynamics of So-Called Paranormal Dreams

6. The Psychology of the Dream: Its Instructive and Therapeutic Uses

7. On the Dream Psychology of C. G. Jung

8. Parapsychological Dream Studies

9. Toward a Phenomenological Analysis of Sleep and the Dream

10. Dreams and Literary Creation

11. The Sociology of the Dream

12. Pathogenic Dreams in Non-Western Societies

13. The Dream, Charisma, and the Culture-Hero

14. Hopi Dreams in Cultural Perspective

15. The Role of Dreams in Ojibwa Culture

16. The Place of Dreams in the Religious World Concept of the Greeks

17. The Dream in Ancient Greece and Its Use in Temple Cures (Incubation)

18. Dreams and Social Character in Mexico

19. Initiation Dreams and Visions among the Siberian Shamans

20. Mantic Dreams in the Ancient Near East

21. The Dream in Medieval Islamic Society

22. The Dream in Popular Culture: Arab and Islamic

23. The Visionary Dream in Islamic Spirituality

24. Dream, Imagination, and ʿĀlam al-mithāl

25. Some Aspects of Inspiration by Demons in Islam

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780520339279

0520339274

OCLC:

1153475254