Abstract: A dream's context and the dreamer's individual history, culture, and language, create a significant matrix for dreamwork. When analyzing the dream of a patient from another culture, we may not understand the associations of the dreamer, not only because we cannot discuss the imagery and feelings aroused by the dream, or because we are unaware of the cultural references, but also...
Abstract:Challenging Freud’s contention that the origin of religion is the need for a protective Father (rather than an oceanic feeling of eternity), Augustine’s Confessions (as I read it) indicates that such an oceanic experience generated the concept of original sin, to justify a theological procedure for wending one’s way back to that ecstatic experience, and thereby laid the foundation for...