A few dream analyses.

The Language and Culture of a Dream: A Case Study

This study has analyzed the culture and language of the American Dream in Blue Surge. It shows the effects of the formula of success and the competition presented by this dream; and, how it produces neurotic individuals trying to cope with the competitive society by means of neurotic strategies. This study has used Karen Horney’s theories and strategies. Horney says neurosis is engende...

Few Demographic Analyses of Both Sexes Are Avail

Demographic divergence between the sexes is a major consequence of sexual selection. Matrix-based demographic measures, including the sensitivity and elasticity of X (population growth rate, fitness) to survival and fertility rates are powerful indexes of intersexual divergence. Many morphological, behavioral, and ecological differences distinguish males and females in lekking long-tailed manak...

Dream as Symptom, Dream as Myth: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Dream Narratives

Many of us have an image of a classic anthropological approach to dreams: in "traditional" cultures, dreams are used to predict the future; dreams are part of "folk healing;" dreams are a social phenomenon. As the anthropologist Ellen Basso has put it, folk dream theories tend to be "progressive" or forward-looking, in contrast to the "regressive" Western dream theory, which uses dreams as a wi...

To dream the maybe possible dream: a breast cancer vaccine.

A midsummer night's dream

It's your first Gordon conference. You've milled around at Logan Airport with hundreds of other scientists and scrambled onto the big green buses. You've made the compulsory stop at the New Hampshire State Liquor store and watched scientists you've idolized buy two fifths of Jack Daniels that they plan to finish by Thursday. night. You've checked in at the school that looks like a minimum secur...