Western Rationality and the Angel of Dreams

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Western Rationality and the Angel of Dreams is written by Murray Lionel Wax and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0847693759 (ISBN 10) and 9780847693757 (ISBN 13).

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.