This article reviews work in anthropology over the last 30 years that has been informed by psychoanalysis, much of it drawing on contemporary schools of psychoanalytic thought that further develop or even directly challenge some of the fundamental assumptions of the original Freudian corpus. It assumes that what happens at the margins or horizons of human consciousness, as a body of work,...
Abstract In this article, I use the study of selfscape dreams to discuss contagion‐like processes not as unique or extraordinary phenomena per se, but rather as a particular kind of social influence more broadly conceived. In particular, I argue that dream consciousness gives us clues about how social influence (and contagion) actually works: partially, incrementally, in a “condensed” way,...
This issue is devoted to an analysis of the relationship between trauma and dreams.With the exception of Deirdre Barrett's 1996 edited volume, this is a relatively understudied subject.Barrett (p. 2) suggests that the lack of attention has come about for two reasons.(i) Until recently many dream researchers-whether or not interested in nightmares and disturbing dreams-following Freud and his...