Dreaming and the Self
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Dreaming and the Self

New Perspectives on Subjectivity, Identity, and Emotion

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Dreaming and the Self

New Perspectives on Subjectivity, Identity, and Emotion

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Drawing upon original fieldwork, cultural theory, and psychological research, Dreaming and the Self offers new approaches to the self—particularly to subjectivity, identity, and emotion. Through an investigation of dreams in various cultures, the contributors explore how people as subjects actually experience cultural life, how they forge identities out of their cultural and historical experiences, how the cultural and historical worlds in which they live shape even their bodily habits and responses, and how the person as agent responds to and imaginatively recreates his or her culture. These essays demonstrate that dreams reflect tellingly on topics of great currency in anthropology, such as how people personally manage postcolonialism, transnationalism, and migration. Actual dreams are examined, including dreams of Samoan young people about race; of a Haitian priestess about vodou deities; of a Pakistani about spiritual teachers; of psychoanalytic clients in Los Angeles and San Diego about cars, witches, and sex; and of a young Balinese mother about a neglected dog.

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Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780791486573
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Cultural & Social Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Dreaming and the Self: Editor
  3. Dreaming and the Self: New Perspectives on Subjectivity, Identity, and Emotion
  4. Copyright
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Part 1: Overview
  7. Part 2: Revisioning the Self and Dreams
  8. Part 3: Self-Revelation and Dream Interpretation
  9. References
  10. Contributors
  11. Index
  12. Back Cover