Papers originally presented at a workshop held at the Jagdschloss Hubertusstock, in Markt Brandenburg, in September 1995
Includes bibliographical references and index
Dreams of interpretation in early Chinese historical and philosophical writings / Wai-yee Li -- Dreaming the self in South India / David Shulman -- The dreams and dramas of a jealous Hindu queen / Wendy Doniger -- Sharing and interpreting dreams in Amerindian nations / Barbara Tedlock -- Mythic dreams and double voicing / Dennis Tedlock -- Dream interpretation in a prosperous age? Artemidorus, the Greek interpreter of dreams / Christine Walde -- On the mantle meaning of incestuous dreams / Cristiano Grottanelli -- Idolum and imago : Roman dreams and dream theories / Hubert Cancik -- Dreams and visions in early Christian discourse / Guy G. Stroumsa -- Communication with the dead in Jewish dream culture / Galit Hasan-Rokem -- Astral dreams in Judaism : twelfth to fourteenth centuries / Moshe Idel -- Dreaming analyzed and recorded : dreams in the world of medieval Islam / Sara Sviri -- The liminality and centrality of dreams in the medieval west / Jean-Claude Schmitt -- Engendering dreams : the dreams of Adam and Eve in Milton's Paradise Lost / Aleida Assmann -- The cultural index of Freud's Interpretation of dreams / Stéphane Moses
This work offers a comparative cross-cultural history of dreams. The authors examine a range of texts concerning dreams, from a variety of religious contexts (including China, the Americas and Greek and Roman antiquity) to explore the ways in which different cultures experience the world of dreams
