American Dreamers
Subtitle: What Dreams Tell Us about the Political Psychologyof Conservatives, Liberals, and Everyone Else
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: July 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780807077344
Subjects: Political Science; Psychology; Politics/International Relations; General; Political Process - General; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Dreams; Political psychology; Politicians; United States
Description: "When politicians and pundits refer to the American Dream, they do so to evoke images of national unity, identity, and a better future. But in what ways does this metaphor manifest in the actual dreams of sleeping Americans? In American Dreamers, dream researcher Kelly Bulkeley takes the ideology of the American Dream one step further - into the study of sleeping dreams - to explore how the nocturnal side of human existence offers a key to the psychological origins of people's waking beliefs and political passions."--Jacket.