Dreaming Culture [electronic resource] : Meanings, Models, and Power in U.S. American Dreams /
Mageo, J.author.
Dreams seem the most private territory of experience. Yet Dreaming Culture argues they are a space in which we practice, consider, question, and adapt cultural models of the self, gender, sexuality, relationships, and agency. Through an innovative "dream ethnography" from college students in the northwestern U.S., this book contributes to recent research on dreaming and the brain in psychology and continuing research on dreaming and the self in clinical psychology and psychological anthropology. Dreaming Culture uses critical theory to understand power relations embedded in cultural models, a perspective often lacking in cognitive anthropology and in psychological studies of self and mind.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Dreaming Cultural Models * Narrative Spectrums and Dreaming the U.S. American Family * Cultural Complexes and Boyfriend/Girlfriend Dreams * Holographic Dreaming and "Moving On" in the U.S.A. * U.S. Traveling Self-models * Dreams as Cultural Remembering.
Dreams seem the most private territory of experience. Yet Dreaming Culture argues they are a space in which we practice, consider, question, and adapt cultural models of the self, gender, sexuality, relationships, and agency. Through an innovative "dream ethnography" from college students in the northwestern U.S., this book contributes to recent research on dreaming and the brain in psychology and continuing research on dreaming and the self in clinical psychology and psychological anthropology. Dreaming Culture uses critical theory to understand power relations embedded in cultural models, a perspective often lacking in cognitive anthropology and in psychological studies of self and mind.
Ethnology.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Psychoanalysis.
Anthropology.
Experiential research.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Psychoanalysis.
Anthropology.
Psychology Research.