Dream Life, Wake Life: The Human Condition Through Dreams

Gordon G. Globus

ISBN 10: 0887063586 / ISBN 13: 9780887063589

Verlag: State Univ of New York Pr, 1986

203 pages. 9.50x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0887063586

Inhaltsangabe:

Attempts to understand the human condition through dreaming reach back to antiquity, especially in such classical Indian philosophical texts as the Rg Veda and the Upanisads. In a more contemporary vein, Dream Life, Wake Life continues this investigation, as it views the dream as an open window on the waking human condition.

The book discusses the major twentieth-century contributions to dream theory, beginning with Freud's 1900 psychoanalytical theory of dreaming and continuing through Jung's transpersonal and Boss's existential approaches. Recent phenomenological, cognitive, and biological developments are also considered.

Dream Life, Wake Life addresses human creativity as illuminated by dreaming. While Freud held a "transformative" view of dreaming in which dream life is secondhand, formed by combining memory traces of diverse past waking experiences into novel compositions, Gordon G. Globus sees the process as creative, the fundamental creative action inherent in the human condition.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Gordon G. Globus, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California at Irvine, and Director of Training and Program Development at the University of California Irvine Psychiatry Service, Capistrano by the Sea Hospital.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Dream Life, Wake Life: The Human Condition ...
Verlag: State Univ of New York Pr
Erscheinungsdatum: 1986
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Brand New