Research Blog #3

    There are several different classes of thought on why we dream. How do different cultures, religions,  and scientific theories explain dreams? Do any cultural explanations match up with current scientific explanations? 


Citations:


  Frieden, Ken. Freud’s Dream of Interpretation. State University of New York Press, 1990.


 Jung, C. G. “The Language of Dreams.” The Undiscovered Self, Princeton University Press,

2015, pp. 83–95, doi:10.1515/9781400839179-012.


 Parsons, William B., and William B. Parsons. “Big Dreams, Religion, and the Transformational.”

Pastoral Psychology, vol. 66, no. 5, Springer US, 2017, pp. 691–97,

doi:10.1007/s11089-016-0750-0.

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