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7 April 2002

Dream Workers

We've all woken up and wondered what the absurd scenarios offered by our sleeping brains might mean. Dreams can be deeply mysterious, even sublime - or they can scare the pants off us. This week, renowned Jungian analyst, Robert Bosnak on working with your dreams; an egyptologist on the dreamlife of Ancient Egypt; and an everyday dreamer on the pleasures of being in a dream group.

 

Transcript

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Further Information

Cyberdreamwork
Interactive 'dreamwork' website initiated by Robert Bosnak
http://www.cyberdreamwork.com

JungDownUnder
The website of the C.G Jung Society of NSW, Sydney, Australia
http://www.jungdownunder.com

Agony and Embodiment: Lecture given by Robert Bosnak post September 11, 2001
http://www.cyberdreamwork.com/cyd-magazine.html

Egyptologist Kasia Szpakowska's website
Dr Kasia Szpakowska's PhD dissertation, "The Perception of Dreams and Nightmares in Ancient Egypt: Old Kingdom to Third Intermediate Period", was published in 2000.
http://www.swan.ac.uk/classics/staff/ks/

Publication

Title: Through the Looking Glass: Dreams in Ancient Egypt (in Dreams: A Reader on The Religious, Cultural and Psychological Dimensions of Dreaming)
Author : Kasia Szpakowska
Publisher: Palgrave, 2001
ISBN: 0-312-29334-8

Title: A Little Course in Dreams
Author : Robert Bosnak
Publisher: Pondview Books (1988)

Title: Tracks in the Wilderness of Dreaming: Exploring Interior Landscape Through Practical Dreamwork.
Author : Robert Bosnak
Price: Pondview Books (1996)

Title: Dreams: A Reader in The Religious, Cultural and Psychological Dimensions of Dreaming
Author : Edited by Kelly Bulkeley
Publisher: Palgrave 2001 (distributed by Macmillan)
ISBN: 0-312-29334-8

Title: Christopher's Dreams: Dreaming and Living with AIDS
Author : Robert Bosnak
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company, Incorporated (1997)

Guests

Dr Kasia Szpakowska
Egyptologist Department of Classics and Ancient History University of Wales, Swansea Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP
mailto:K.Szpakowska@swansea.ac.uk

Merilee Bennett
Member of a Sydney based dreamwork group

Robert Bosnak
Dutch Jungian psychoanalyst 2002 President-elect Association for the Study of Dreams