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Az álom: a múlt vagy a jövő
Dream: Past or Future

Author(s): Vilmos Keszeg
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: approaches to dreams; Freud; cultural anthropology; consciousness of an individual and an era; community of remembrance; explanatory community; narrative speech

Summary/Abstract: Sigmund Freud proved that dreams compose personal remembrance into a special narrative form, but it has been a habit so far to define dreams like a prophecy and to invoke them in ritualistic (folk) circumstances. The article reviews speech about dreams, functions of speech about dreams (biographical and collective), finality and practice approaches to dreams in folk culture from ancient times to the present. The essay contends that when people talk about their dreams, then this act puts them into a social sphere, so the dream becomes part of the individual and narrative identity.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 14-19
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Hungarian
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