Pharaoh's command in Gen 41:55—“Go to Joseph; what he says to you, do”—aptly summarizes the breadth of authority Joseph attains in Egypt and the means by which he exercises it: direct speech. By interpreting Egyptian dreams, Joseph establishes himself as a “wise and discerning” …
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This study aims to offer an alternative approach to analyze and understand literary texts through folklore. I focused on Jean Rhys's famous novel Wide Sargasso Sea, which has often been examined through a postcolonial approach. My thesis suggests that the postcolonial criticisms…
The purpose of this dissertation was to study symbolic vision reports in the Hebrew Bible to determine what, if any, formal elements they share with symbolic dream accounts. Chapter 2 began with a survey of dream reports in the ancient Near East. The differences between “message…
The purpose of this study was to explore the earliest influences on Lebanese professional women's Dreams (Levinson, 1978). A focus was placed on achieving a deeper understanding of the Dream's origins in childhood. There was an examination of how the Dream initially developed an…
This dissertation studies the more than 1300 Greek and Latin inscriptions referring to divine communications received by individual worshipers in their dreams or waking visions, or else through unspecified divinatory media. Precisely 1300 of these—623 Greek, 677 Latin—are inscri…
Until recently, research into dreaming followed the reductionist paradigm within a Freudian framework. This line of enquiry has failed to date to provide a meaningful relationship between neuropsychology and dreaming. As a result, theory development has halted, original therapeu…
The current study both supports and extends previous research on the content and discovery of Canadian males' dreams to the dreams of Canadian soldiers. Participants included 25 Canadian male soldiers with operational experience in Afghanistan as well as an age and gender matche…
Dreams hold a particular interest in the minds of literary authors across recorded history. Long looked at as messages of prophecy or visions from the gods, it was not until the 20th century that dreams began to be studied for their psychological impact on the human brain. With …
Filipino migrant wives occupy a unique space in South Korean society. They are pioneers of South Korea's distinct version of multiculturalism, having been among the first wave of migrant wives to enter Korea. Some have broken through intersectional barriers to become politicians…
This hermeneutic phenomenological study examines the experience of using Embodied Imagination when confronting a life-threatening illness. Embodied Imagination (EI) is a type of guided dreamwork concerned with the direct effect of imagination on the mind, body, and spirit and in…
This dissertation examines how Pentecostal-Charismatics in African contexts derive spiritual knowledge from the experience of dreams and visions (D/Vs), and discusses how the experiences and their interpretations manifest a distinctive expression of epistemology. The topic is a …
This archetypal inquiry examines the cultural phenomenon of Mars colonization as it appears in popular culture as a frontier fantasy. To ascertain the common frontier narrative, multivalent bases of Mars colonization are explored and interpreted following hermeneutic philosophy.…
A arquitetura e o cinema têm contribuído, ao longo da história, com inúmeros ensaios visuais, mentais e espaciais. Esta dissertação procura refletir sobre vários níveis e experiências de arquitetura dentro e fora do mundo fictício do cinema. A análise destes níveis cai sobre o p…
Dream interpretation has been a widely recognized component of psychological practice since the publication of Sigmund Freud's (1900/2010) The Interpretation of Dreams. By providing initial conceptualizations of the dream's function, Freud created the foundation for the numerous…
Dreams, feeling, myth, and intuition are creations of the right brain that are increasingly undervalued in our modern world as the result of a hyperfocus on left-brained analytical activity. Humankind collectively suffers due to this loss. Through focused attention and documenta…
The light of the Anima Mundi has been repressed for over two thousand years. From a feminine in-sighting, this dissertation considers the reasons for the World Soul's repression and how her light can be renewed. The division of body and mind, image and word, physicality and spir…