Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.
Sto caricando le informazioni... Lincoln Dreamt He Died: The Midnight Visions of Remarkable Americans from Colonial Times to Freuddi Andrew Burstein
Nessuno Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A compelling study of dreams and their interpretation in American history, though somewhat hampered by its sprawling nature. ( ) Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. "Lincoln Dreamt He Died" is a smorgasbord of compelling and seldom-seen examples of very personal dream accounts reaching far back into our country's past. However, it stretches much further than that by tying those dreams into the very fabric of early American history.What makes this book stand out from other dream books I've read (such as Brian Hill's "Gates of Horn and Ivory") is that it is not an anthology. Instead, it is an intense and in-depth look at how Americans perceived their dreams, and how that viewpoint changed over the years as the country grew and matured. Drawing from journals, letters, and various publications either recounting dreams or discussing opinions about dreams, author Andrew Burstein excerpts and synthesizes the widely varied material into a thread which follows the life of dreams in the minds of early American women and men. How did early Americans respond to dreams? Did they dream, overall, similarly to how we dream today? Did dreams have real effects on their world? As an amateur historian and folklorist I found this book absorbing. It represents a refreshing new outlook on the roots of the American viewpoint. You can tell how deeply Burstein immersed himself in the project by the way he occasionally refers to themes and patterns that aren't obvious on reading chapters for the first time -- and speaking personally this is not a drawback, as I'd rather go back and reread sections to really get a grasp on what the author’s point is, than to read the book once-through on a surface level only (which so many of those dream anthologies are delightfully geared to allow). If you are interested in early American social history, and curious about how the internal world of dreams tied into and reflected the external world of centuries past, by all means, pick this book up. It is a fascinating window on the tandem worlds of the inner and outer lives of our predecessors. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. I got the book as a early review copy and was pretty happy overall.The book would be best for history fans looking for some light reading. L.D.H.D. was a series of vignettes tied together by tepid psychological musings on the people, time and place of each story. Good book. Perfect to pick up and breeze through a few pages or plow through many. There are some quotes and observations that did make me ponder the workings of the mind for a little bit. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. An informative look at how people in history viewed their dreams. The book analyzes both famous people and some every day folk. Some people dealt with include Dr. Benjamin Rush, Abraham Lincoln, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Louisa May Alcott. I think the major theme of the book is that people gave much more importance to dreams in the past using them to make decisions in their lives and also a predictors of their futures. The book is well researched and gives us a look inside the psychology of people in our American heritage. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Before Sigmund Freud made dreams the cornerstone of understanding an individual's inner life, Americans shared their dreams unabashedly with one another through letters, diaries, and casual conversation. In this innovative book, highly regarded historian Andrew Burstein goes back for the first time to discover what we can learn about the lives and emotions of Americans, from colonial times to the beginning of the modern age. Through a thorough study of dreams recorded by iconic figuressuch as John and Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln, as well as everyday men and women, we glimpse the emotions of earlier generations and understand how those feelings shaped their lives and careers, thus gaining a fuller, multi-dimensional sense of our own past. No one has ever looked at the building blocks of the American identity in this way, and Burstein reveals important clues and landmarks that show the origins of the ideas and values that remain central to who we are today. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
Già recensito in anteprima su LibraryThingIl libro di Andrew Burstein Lincoln Dreamt He Died è stato disponibile in LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Discussioni correntiNessunoCopertine popolari
Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)154.6Philosophy and Psychology Psychology Subconsciousness In SleepClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |