What, if anything, do dreams tell us about ourselves? What is the relationship between types of sleep and types of dreams? Does dreaming serve any purpose? Or are dreams simply meaningless mental noise--"unmusical fingers wandering over the piano keys"?With expertise in philosop…
"An accessible survey of the latest research on sleep and dreams and a compelling new theory about the nature and function of dreaming."--Jacket.
"An accessible survey of the latest research on sleep and dreams and a compelling new theory about the nature and function of dreaming."--Jacket
"Dreaming, like sleep itself, is an experience common to all people across all cultures, ages and regions of the globe. However, the interpretation of dreams and the mythologies surrounding them provide a fascinating insight into mankind's relation with the hidden, secret world …
"Dreaming, like sleep itself, is an experience common to all people across all cultures, ages and regions of the globe. However, the interpretation of dreams and the mythologies surrounding them provide a fascinating insight into mankind's relation with the hidden, secret world …
After a hundred years of psychoanalysis, what has the psychoanalytic interpretation of dreams now become? Are what Simic calls "the films of our lives" still the royal road to the unconscious or do we now have a different concept both of dreams and of the unconscious? What is th…
Pt. I. Body/mind -- pt. II. Dreaming and sleep.
"This book is a translation of a work previously published in French as Contribution aa la Clinique du Raeve: la Psychanalyse et les Neurosciences (Psychanalyse et Civilisation), L'Harmattan (2007)."