Dreaming Culture: Meanings, Models, and Power in U.S. American Dreams (Culture, Mind, and Society)

"Dreams seem the most private territory of experience. Yet Dreaming Culture argues they are a space in which we practice, consider, question, and adapt cultural models of the self, gender, sexuality, relationships, and agency. Through an innovative "dream ethnography" from college students in the northwestern U.S., this book contributes to recent research on dreaming and the brain in psychology and continuing research on dreaming and the self in clinical psychology and psychological anthropology. Dreaming Culture uses critical theory to understand power relations embedded in cultural models, a perspective often lacking in cognitive anthropology and in psychological studies of self and mind"--Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction: Dreaming Cultural Models....Pages 1-22 Narrative Spectrums and Dreaming the U.S. American Family....Pages 23-57 Cultural Complexes and Boyfriend/Girlfriend Dreams....Pages 59-91 Holographic Dreaming and “Moving On” in the U.S.A.....Pages 93-122 U.S. Traveling Self-Models....Pages 123-159 Dreams as Cultural Remembering....Pages 161-171 Back Matter....Pages 173-215 Posits that dreams are a space in which we practice, consider, question, and adapt cultural models and offer unique insight into cultural psychologies