Chapter 4 To Dream, Perchance to Cure
The anthropologist Jackson S. Lincoln ([1935] 1970), whose bookThe Dream in Primitive Cultureswas the first extensive review of anthropological studies of dreaming in other cultures, argued that dreams in which the dreamer receives a direct message from God, or from one of the deities, are so rigorously defined by cultural belief that they are not amenable to personal interpretation. Dreams of directives or communications from a supernatural figure, which he dubbed “cultural pattern dreams,” are held to be so stereotyped in form as not to allow of the expression of any personal meaning that could be interpreted psychoanalytically
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