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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783635703321

Autore

Van Loben Sels Robin E. <1938-, >

Titolo

A dream in the world : poetics of soul in two women, modern and medieval / / Robin E. van Loben Sels

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hove, East Sussex ; ; New York : , : Brunner-Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-47958-5

0-203-63272-9

1-135-47959-3

1-280-10369-8

0-203-42086-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Disciplina

154.6/3

Soggetti

Dream interpretation

Jungian psychology

Dreams - Religious aspects - Christianity

Jungian psychology - Religious aspects - Christianity

Dreams - Therapeutic use

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-245) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Theoretical approaches to mystical experience; The dreamer and her dreams; ""Falling through"": Experience of soul; Hadewijch's paradox; Summary and conclusions; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

How can science and religion co-exist in the modern discipline of psychotherapy? A Dream in the World explores the interfaces between religious experience and dream analysis. At the heart of this book is a selection of dreams presented by the author's patient during analysis, which are compared with the dreams of Hadewijch, a thirteenth century woman mystic.  The patient's dreams led the modern woman to an unanticipated breakthrough encounter with the divine, her ""experience of soul"". The experience reoriented and energized her life, and became her ""dream-in-the-world"". Following