Dream Cultures: Explorations in the Comparative History of Dreaming

Cover
......Page 1
Title Page
......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication
......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Introduction - David Shulman and Guy G. Stroumsa......Page 14
References......Page 24
China and India......Page 26
The Readability of the World......Page 28
The Dreamability of the World......Page 40
Afterthoughts......Page 49
Notes......Page 50
References......Page 53
Dreaming the Self
in South India - 
David Shulman......Page 54
Notes......Page 82
References......Page 83
The Dreams and Dramas of
a Jealous Hindu Queen - 
Wendy Doniger......Page 85
Kalingasena and the Magician......Page 87
Viracita and the Slip of the Tongue......Page 88
The Dream of Vasavadatta......Page 89
Ratnavali, the Lady with the Jeweled Necklace......Page 90
Priyadarsika, the Forest Girl......Page 92
References......Page 94
Amerindia......Page 96
Sharing and Interpreting Dreams
in Amerindian Nations - Barbara Tedlock......Page 98
Evidentials......Page 103
Lucid Dreaming......Page 105
Dream Incubation and Active Imagination......Page 109
Notes......Page 111
References......Page 112
Mythic Dreams and Double Voicing - Dennis Tedlock......Page 115
Notes......Page 128
References......Page 129
Mediterranean
Classical and Late Antiquity
......Page 130
Dreams and Dreaming in Greco-Roman Antiquity......Page 132
Artemidorus......Page 135
Artemidorus and Freud......Page 139
Epilogue......Page 149
Notes......Page 150
References......Page 152
On the Mantic Meaning of
Incestuous Dreams - 
Cristiano Grottanelli......Page 154
Table 8.1.
Artemidori Oneirocritica 1, 79: Incest and Mother: Earth Homology
......Page 156
Table 8.2.
Incestuous Dreams and Political Power
......Page 159
Table 8.3.
Incestuous Dream, Real Incest, Power
......Page 165
Table 8.4.
Useless Dreams
......Page 167
Appendix: Incest in Modern Dream Books......Page 169
Notes......Page 177
References......Page 178
1.1. Practiced Religion......Page 180
1.2. The Dream in the Scheme of Divination Types......Page 182
2.1. "The Confused Dreams" (Cic. div. 2,59,122)......Page 184
2.2. "Everything Is Full of Images" (Cic. div. 2,67,137)......Page 185
2.3. The Seven Dreams (4,1011-1036)......Page 186
3.1. Imaginary Motives and Imaginative Activities of Consciousness......Page 188
3.2. Ovid's Dreams......Page 189
3.3. Lucan on the Dreams of Pompeius......Page 193
4. Summary and Conclusion......Page 195
Notes......Page 196
Bibliography......Page 198
Introduction......Page 200
Hellenic Divination and the Second Religiosity......Page 202
Divination and Incubation......Page 204
Prophecy......Page 205
Classifications of Dreams......Page 207
God......Page 208
The Devil......Page 210
The Soul......Page 211
Ekstasis......Page 214
Conclusion......Page 215
Notes......Page 217
References......Page 221
Communication with the Dead
in Jewish Dream Culture - 
Galit Hasan-Rokem......Page 224
Notes......Page 241
References......Page 242
Middle Ages and Modern West......Page 244
Introduction......Page 246
Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra and
the Anonymous Sefer ha-Hayyim
......Page 249
"Maimonides"' Kabbalistic Epistle
......Page 250
Pseudo-Ibn 'Ezra's Sefer ha-'Atzamim
......Page 256
Diurnal and Nocturnal Religious Tendencies......Page 257
Notes......Page 258
References......Page 261
Dreaming Analyzed
and Recorded
Dreams in the World of Medieval Islam - 
Sara Sviri......Page 263
Notes......Page 279
References......Page 282
The Liminality and Centrality of
Dreams in the Medieval West - 
Jean-Claude Schmitt......Page 285
Classification of Dreams......Page 286
The Rhetoric of Dreams......Page 290
The Self and the Dream......Page 294
Notes......Page 296
References......Page 297
Introduction: Dream and Transcendence......Page 299
Eve's Dream......Page 302
Demonic Dreams and Puritan Ethic......Page 303
Adam as Eve's Analyst......Page 305
Adam's Dream......Page 307
Imagination and Fancy—the RomanticEngendering of Anthropology......Page 310
Notes......Page 312
References......Page 313
The Cultural Index of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams - Stephane Moses......Page 314
References......Page 325
Index......Page 326