Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
June 1, 2011
Richard Jenkins
Reviewed by: The Devil's Children. From Spirit Possession to Witchcraft: New Allegations That Affect Children Richard Jenkins Keywords children, witchcraft, possession, Africa, persecution Jean La Fontaine , ed. The Devil's Children. From Spirit Possession to Witchcraft: New Allegations That Affect Children. Farnham and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. xvi + 204. Children and young people...
Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies
June 1, 2011
Gary J. Brown
When C. G. Jung partnered with Sigmund Freud, he already had a broad knowledge of world mythology and an understanding of the unconscious formed largely from Schopenhauer’s Will and Nietzsche’s Dionysian energy of nature, or physis. Unwilling to reduce this unconscious—matrix of dreams, myth, and literature—to Freud’s infantile sexual libido, Jung’s break with Freud was inevitable. His long...
The Classical World
June 1, 2011
Suzanne Lye
Reviewed by: Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind: Descending Underground in the Search for Ultimate Truth Suzanne Lye Yulia Ustinova . Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind: Descending Underground in the Search for Ultimate Truth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. x, 315. $95.00. ISBN 978-0-19-954856-9. Yulia Ustinova provides a study of the use of caves and underground chambers in ancient...
North American Journal of Medicine and Science
June 1, 2011
Athanasios Totlis
Human beings, like all living organisms, use energy ceaselessly with whatever they do. Nothing at all happens without spending some energy, not even a glance or a dream. The Author proposes that dreams happen automatically in sleep to help us release unresolved frustration energy and emotional dilemmas left over from the day before. Energy administration is the common denominator behind the...
Anesthesiology
June 1, 2011
Daniela Hauer, Patrizia Ratano, Maria Morena et al.
Propofol is associated with postoperative mood alterations and induces a higher incidence of dreaming compared with other general anesthetics. These effects might be mediated by propofol's inhibitory action on fatty acid amide hydrolase, the enzyme that degrades the endocannabinoid anandamide. Because propofol is also associated with a higher incidence of traumatic memories from perioperative...
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
June 1, 2011
W. Klemm
Brain activity differs in the various sleep stages and in conscious wakefulness. Awakening from sleep requires restoration of the complex nerve impulse patterns in neuronal network assemblies necessary to re-create and sustain conscious wakefulness. Herein I propose that the brain uses rapid eye movement (REM) to help wake itself up after it has had a sufficient amount of sleep. Evidence...
Consciousness and Cognition
June 1, 2011
Mark Blagrove, Josie Henley-Einion, Amanda Barnett et al.
The dream-lag effect refers to there being, after the frequent incorporation of memory elements from the previous day into dreams (the day-residue), a lower incorporation of memory elements from 2 to 4 days before the dream, but then an increased incorporation of memory elements from 5 to 7 days before the dream. Participants (n=8, all female) kept a daily diary and a dream diary for 14 days...
Victorian Literature and Culture
May 18, 2011
Beth Tressler
In a letter that she wrote to her childhood governess and religious mentor Maria Lewis in 1839, George Eliot describes a pervading and distressful mental anxiety – one that would come to greatly influence both the constitution and development of her fiction. Still within the throes of her evangelical ardor, Eliot laments in this letter that the “disjointed specimens” of history, poetry,...
The Open Sleep Journal
May 11, 2011
Rafael J. Salín-Pascual
The phenomenological relationship between consciousness and sleep are reviewed.Consciousness has a selfreflexive component, and while sleeping that is not working as in awakenings.The necessity of some change in narrow concepts of conscious as to be aware and self reflective as well of some aspects of Altered State of Consciousness are explained.In fact, in rapid eye movements [REM] sleep is...
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
April 19, 2011
Mindfulness and dream quality: the inverse relationship between mindfulness and negative dream affect.