Dreaming culture
Subtitle: meanings, models, and power in U.S. American dreams
By: Jeannette Marie Mageo
Series: Culture, mind and society
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780230337350
Subjects: Dream interpretation; Dreams; Psychological aspects
Description: "Posits that dreams are a space in which we practice, consider, question, and adapt cultural models and offer unique insight into cultural psychologies. "--

"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"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 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.