Studia Mythologica Slavica
August 31, 2026
Kaarina Koski
This paper analyses three bereavement narratives in which adult daughters describe nightmarish after-death communication with a deceased parent. The narratives are approached with a narrative analysis in dialogue with psychological approaches to bereavement dreams and continuing bonds. In psychology, bereavement nightmares are usually assumed to signal difficulties accepting loss. However, in...
Bozok Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi
August 31, 2026
Sıddık Ağçoban
This study examines theophanic dreams, a specific type of dream, within the context of the transition from institutional religious authorities to individual experiential authority. Theophanic dreams are defined as dreams in which the person claims to have had an encounter with God, to have made contact with God’s voice or image, and to have received direct guidance from Him. The study aims to...
International Journal of Advanced Research
August 31, 2026
Suhani Gupta
This essay explores time as both a scientific constant and a deeply subjective human experience. Drawing on the historical evolution of timekeeping, philosophical contributions from Plato, Aristotle, and Einstein, and the psychological phenomenon of time perception, the piece examines whether time is an objective, measurable reality or a construct generated by consciousness. It concludes by...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 30, 2026
Nadji Belkheiri
preprint
This paper presents a theoretical-philosophical inquiry into the ontological status of dream consciousness. Addressing the explanatory gap between neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) and phenomenal experience, it critiques reductive physicalist accounts of dreaming. By utilizing veridical dream reports as limit-case thought experiments and adopting a stratified approach to empirical data,...
Psychology and Education A Multidisciplinary Journal
August 29, 2026
Honesto “Troi” III Borromeo, Flordelice Pedrera
This study aims to demonstrate that disobedience in Eros and Psyche and Orpheus and Eurydice instead expresses unconscious psychological conflict rooted in desire, repression, and anxiety. Using a Freudian psychoanalytic framework, the analysis applies close textual reading to each myth's pivotal transgressive moment, coding Psyche's lamp scene and Orpheus's backward glance according to the...
European Journal of Education and Counselling
August 28, 2026
Sümeyra Yakar, Meryem Karaaziz
This study aims to comparatively examine the concept of self within the framework of Carl Gustav Jung's analytical psychology and Mevlâna Celaleddin-i Rumi's Sufi understanding. The self, central to human existence, is considered a fundamental element in both approaches as a key component of the individual's inner transformation process. In Jung's theory, the self is defined as a psychological...
The Journal of Value Inquiry
August 28, 2026
Kyle York, Merily Salura
Abstract Dreams can be aesthetically valuable in many ways. They can provide opportunities for aesthetically rich experiences of agency and action, placing the dreamer into novel situations and taking her out of her usual network of motivations, commitments, and goals. Dreams can also feature unique ambiences and evoke awe both regarding their content and regarding consciousness itself....
Psychoanalytic Inquiry
August 28, 2026
Diana Moga
Autistic individuals are more susceptible to trauma due to higher baseline anxiety and overwhelm; poorer episodic memory; and the frequent lack of a sense of community, safety, and belonging that are both protective and needed to heal from trauma. Furthermore, many autistic adults have adopted a false self to get by in a neurotypical world and are often cut off from their affective, embodied...
Annual report
August 27, 2026
Tyrus Miller
Sleep, Idleness, and the Passages between Surrealism and the ReadymadeThe Lining of SleepIn his "Manifesto of Surrealism," published in 1924, André Breton posed the question whether the apparent intermittence of the thoughts of dreamconsciousness might not be equally true of waking consciousness, or whether, indeed, waking-consciousness should not be considered a "phenomenon of interference"...
Neophilologica
August 26, 2026
Anna Kuncy-Zając
The aim of this article is to analyze the notion of movement in the conceptualizations of some altered states of consciousness, such as: sleeping (sonno), dreaming (sogno), meditation (meditazione) and hypnosis (ipnosi) in the Italian language. The research presented is based on the following theories: thematic proto-roles by D. Dowty (1991) and Kinesthetic Image Schemas by G. L akoff (1987),...