{"product_id":"on-dreams-and-dreaming","title":"On Dreams and Dreaming","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Sudhir Kakar\u003cbr\u003eEminent Contributors\/\u003cbr\u003eTranslator(s)\/ Editors(s): Sudhir Kakar\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin\/Viking\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2011\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 222\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 9780670084661\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMapping the uncharted territory at the edges of psychological knowledge, these fascinating essays explore compelling aspects of dreams and dreaming. They discuss topics as diverse as memorable dreams, lucid dreaming, the role of dreams in the evolution of human consciousness and the relationship between dreams and the waking state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn ‘The Dream and Its Embedding’, psychoanalyst Patrick Mahoney demonstrates, with absorbing case studies, how dreams can become effective therapeutic tools while dream scholar Kelly Bulkely concludes in ‘Big Dreams’ that ultimately, the function of dreams is to make the brain grow. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLuigi Zoja, dream analyst, explores the profusion of nightmares among soldiers, prisoners and other victims of war in ‘Nightmares’. And Madhu Tandan, who lived for seven years at an ashram in the foothills of the Himalayas, explains how dreams can access a level of consciousness beyond the psychological.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume is the first in the ‘Boundaries of Consciousness’ series, which, under the leadership of Sudhir Kakar, seeks to bring together psychoanalysts, philosophers, religious studies scholars and neuroscientists in order to expand the frontiers of current psychological understanding. Subsequent volumes will spring from symposia held at Wasan Island, Canada, on the supernatural, on death and dying and creativity and imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited and introduced by Sudhir Kakar, On Dreams and Dreaming will be of interest to scholars and to all who dream and seek to understand why.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword to the Series ‘Boundaries of Consciousness’ by Helga Breuninger\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Sudhir Kakar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.\tBig Dreams – The Science of Highly Memorable Dreaming – Kelly Bulkeley \u003cbr\u003e2.\tDream and Trauma – The Secondary State of the Freudian Primary Process by Christoph Tuercke \u003cbr\u003e3.\tThe Dream and Its Embedding – The Dormancy Triangle in Psychoanalytic Treatment by Patrick J. Mahony \u003cbr\u003e4.\tNightmares: The Nightmare and the Invention of the Other by Luigi Zoja \u003cbr\u003e5.\tDreams at the Boundary of the Self and Others Intersubjective Fields, Emotions and Culture by Daniel Deslauriers \u003cbr\u003e6.\tPossible Worlds, Possible Selves – Dreaming and the Liberation of Consciousness by Tracey L. Kahan \u003cbr\u003e7.\tContemplating Lucid Dreaming – East-West views by Fariba Bogzaran\u003cbr\u003e8.\tThe Way Leads though Yourself to beyond yourself – Dreaming in a Himalayan Monastery by Madhu Tandan \u003cbr\u003e9.\tSummary of the Discussion by Almuth Sellschopp \u003cbr\u003e10.\tNotes \u003cbr\u003e11.\tNotes on the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Sudhir Kakar \/ Penguin\/Viking \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153740099952,"sku":"31378","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/31378.jpg?v=1793913439","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/on-dreams-and-dreaming","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}