Dreams, Illusion, and other Realities by O’Flaherty, Wendy Doniger -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Copyright Title Page Frontispiece Dedication Contents List of Illustrations Guide to Pronunciation and Terminology Acknowledgments Introduction. Transformation and Contradiction 1. The Interpretation of Dreams

Indian Texts

Dreams in Vedic and Medical Texts Dreams in the Rāmāyaṇa: Sītā and Bharata Dreams in the Mahābhārata: Karṇa and Kārtavīrya Buddhist Dreams: Kunāla and the Wicked Queen

Western Arguments

Pindar and Plato Freud on the Reality of Dreams The Dreams of Post-Freudians and Children

2. Myths About Dreams

Indian Texts

The Shared Dream

Vikramāditya Finds Malayavatī The Rape of Uṣā The Brushwood Boy

Western Arguments

Shared Dreams and Archetypal Myths The Rêve à Deux in Psychoanalysis

3. Myths About Illusion

Indian Texts

Nārada Transformed into a Woman Magic Doubles

Śuka and Śukra

Shadows of the Rāmāyaṇa: Sītā and Rāvaṇa Double Women

Māyāvatī in the House of Śambara The Two Līlās

Double Universes

Viśvāmitra’s Upside-bown World

Inside the Mouth of God: Yaśodā, Arjuna, and Mārkaṇḍeya Arguments

Indian: The Meaning of Illusion (māyā) Western: The Hard and the Soft and Mr. Shlemiel

4. Epistemology in Narrative: Tales From the Yogavāsiṣṭha

Indian Texts

The King Who Dreamed He was an Untouchable and Awoke to Find It Was True The Brahmin Who Dreamed He Was An Untouchable Who Dreamed He Was a King Lavaṇa and Gādhi: Mutual Similes The Suffering of the Hindu King

Hariścandra among the Untouchables

The Suffering of the Buddhist King

Vessantara’s Gift Gautama’s Visions

Suffering among the Others Folk Variants on the Tales of Lavaṇa and Gādhi

Indian Arguments

Ways of Knowing for Sure: Authorities Unreality-Testing Common Sense and Contradiction

Western Arguments

Reality-Testing

The Receding Frame

5. Ontology in Narrative: More Tales From the Yogavāsiṣṭha

Indian Texts and Arguments

The Monk Who Met the People in His Dream Karma and Rebirth Déjà vu: Memory and Emotion The Monk and the Narrator

The Girl inside the Stone

The Möbius Universe

Western Texts and Arguments: The Furies and the Red King The Dreamer Dreamt

6. The Art of Illusion

Indian Texts: The Root Metaphors of the Yogavāsiṣṭha

The Serpent and the Rope as a Metaphor for a Mistake The Son of a Barren Woman as a Metaphor for Impossibility The Crow and the Palm Tree as a Metaphor for Pure Chance The Magic City in the Sky as a Metaphor for Illusion

Indian and Western Arguments

Projection in Art and Reality Detail and Banality in Surrealistic Illusion The Artist as a Magician God as an Artist

Conclusion

Serendipity and Obsession The Dream That Wanders in the Daylight

Appendixes

1. The Erotic Dream in China 2. The Dream Adventure in China and Ireland 3. Stories from the Yogavāsiṣṭha Told (or Cited) in This Book

Notes Bibliography Index of Names and Terms Subject Index Addenda to the Second Printing

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