Dreams

Introduction; Contemplating Freud's Navel PART I: TRADITIONS Buddhist Dream Experience: The Role of Interpretation, Ritual, and Gender; S.Young Dreams and Nightmares in Ancient Egypt; K.Szpakowska Dreams in the Hebrew Bible; M.Tanner Sending a Voice, Seeking a Place: Visionary Dreams Among Native Women of the Plains; L.Irwin Dreams in American Personal Religious Accounts: 1600-1980; J.Alexander Dreams of Purposes: An Analysis of Dream Narratives in an Independent African Church; S.Charsley The Role of Dreams in Religious Enculturation Among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea; R.I.Lohmann PART II: INDIVIDUALS Penelope as Dreamer; The Perils of Interpretation; K.Bulkeley Kagwahiv Mourning: Dreams of a Bereaved Father; W.Kracke Dreams as 'Good to Think': Visionary Experiences in the Life of an Indian Sufi; M.Hermansen Wish, Conflict, and Awareness: Freud and the Problem of the 'Dream Book'; B.Cohler The Mystical Dreams of Ramakrishna; J.Kripal Dreams of a Jungian Therapist; J.White-Lewis 'Ifit Were My Dream ': Experiences in Group Dreamsharing; J.Taylor PART III: METHODS Western Dreams About Eastern Dreams; W.Doniger The New Anthropology of Dreaming; B.Tedlock Beyond Freud and Jung: A View from Cognitive Psychology; G .W.Domhoff A Content Analysis of Mehinaku Dreams; T.Gregor Modernity and Dream Content: A Ugandan Example; K.E.Johnson How Metaphor Structures Dreams: The Theory of Conceptual Metaphor Applied to Dream Analysis; G.Lakoff The Dream Navel: Networks of Meaning and the Undermining of Foundations; J.DiCenso Turning Aside at the Navel of the Dream: The End(s) of Interpretation; D.Jonte-Pace Metacognition in Dreaming and Waking; T.Kahan Conclusion: Responding to a Skeptic: A Conversation with Frederick Crews