Dreams in myth, medicine, and movies

Summary: Cinema--invented just before psychoanalysis formally developed--primed the public and scholars to rethink ideas about dreams. The author describes how surrealist artists purposely applied Freudian dream theories to their art to make the public aware of "modern" ideas about dreams. Most of our current cultural consciousness about the psychological value of dreams is traced to classical and contemporary cinema. This work examines how residuals of past approaches to dreams make conceptions of dreams in psychoanalysis and science more complex than ever today.

Record details

ISBN: 0313012105
ISBN: 9780313012105
ISBN: 0275972437
ISBN: 9780275972431
ISBN: 1280315318
ISBN: 9781280315312
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (x, 237 pages)
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-229) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface -- Before we begin -- Dreams and definitions -- Myth and meaning -- Film and photography -- Cinema and cyberspace -- Sleep and social control -- Science fiction and sleep -- Deities and demons -- Shamans and sorcerers -- Reason and romance -- Symbolism and surrealism -- Psyche and soul -- Body and brain -- Foretelling the future.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.