Dreams, illusion, and other realities

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• ILLUSTRATIONS = xi
• GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION AND TERMINOLOGY = xiii
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS = xv
• INTRODUCTION: TRANSFORMATION AND CONTRADICTION = 3
• 1. THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS = 14
• Indian Texts = 14
• Dreams in Vedic and Medical Texts = 14
• Dreams in the R$$\bar a$$m$$\bar a$$yatia: S$$\bar i$$t$$\bar a$$ and Bharata = 27
• Dreams in the Mah$$\bar a$$bh$$\bar a$$rata: Karna and K$$\bar a$$rtav$$\bar i$$rya = 31
• Buddhist Dreams: Kun5la and the Wicked Queen = 35
• Western Arguments = 37
• Pindar and Plato = 37
• Freud on the Reality of Dreams = 42
• The Dreams of Post-Freudians and Children = 53
• 2. MYTHS ABOUT DREAMS = 61
• Indian Texts = 61
• The Shared Dream = 61
• Vikr$$\bar a$$maditya Finds Malayavat$$\bar i$$ = 63
• The Rape of Us$$\bar a$$ = 65
• The Brushwood Boy = 71
• Western Arguments = 73
• Shared Dreams and Archetypal Myths = 73
• The R$$\hat e$$ve $$\grave a$$ Deux in Psychoanalysis = 75
• 3. MYTHS ABOUT ILLUSION = 81
• Indian Texts = 81
• N$$\bar a$$ada Transformed into a Woman = 81
• Magic Doubles = 89
• $$\acute S$$uka and $$\acute S$$ukra = 90
• Shadows of the R$$\acute a$$md$$\acute a$$yana: S$$\bar i$$t$$\bar a$$ and R$$\bar a$$vaua = 92
• Double Women = 98
• M$$\bar a$$y$$\bar a$$vat$$\bar i$$ in the House of $$\acute S$$ambara = 99
• The Two L$$\bar i$$l$$\bar a$$s = 101
• Double Universes = 103
• Vi$$\acute s$$gv$$\bar a$$mitra's Upside-Down World = 103
• Inside the Mouth of God: Ya$$\acute s$$od$$\bar a$$, Arjunal and M$$\bar a$$rkaodeya = 109
• Arguments = 114
• Indian: The Meaning of Illusion (m$$\bar a$$y$$\bar a$$) = 114
• Western: The Hard and the Soft and Mr. Shlemiel = 122
• 4. EPISTEMOLOGY IN NARRATIVE: TALES FROM THE
• Yogav$$\bar a$$sistha = 127
• Indian Texts = 132
• The King Who Dreamed He was an Untouchable and Awoke to Find It Was True = 132
• The Brahmin Who Dreamed He Was An Untouchable Who Dreamed He Was a King = 134
• Lavana and G$$\bar a$$dhi: Mutual Similes = 135
• The Suffering of the Hindu King = 140
• Hari$$\acute s$$andra among the Untouchables = 143
• The Suffering of the Buddhist King = 146
• Vessantara's Gift = 146
• Gautama's Visions = 149
• Suffering among the Others = 158
• Folk Variants on the Tales of Lavana and G$$\bar a$$dhi = 165
• Indian Arguments = 172
• Ways of Knowing for Sure: Authorities = 172
• Unreality-Testing = 174
• Common Sense and Contradiction = 180
• Western Arguments = 189
• Reality-Testing = 189
• The Receding Frame = 197
• 5. ONTOLOGY IN NARRATIVE: MORE TALES FROM THE
• Yogav$$\bar a$$sistha = 206
• Indian Texts and Arguments = 206
• The Monk Who Met the People in His Dream = 207
• Karma and Rebirth = 214
• D$$\acute a$$j$$\graver a$$ vu: Memory and Emotion = 221
• The Monk and the Narrator = 230
• The Girl inside the Stone = 234
• The M$$\ddote a$$bius Universe = 240
• Western Texts and Arguments: The Furies and the Red King = 245
• The Dreamer Dreamt = 252
• 6. THE ART OF ILLUSION = 260
• Indian Texts: The Root Metaphors of the Yogav$$\bar a$$tha = 261
• The Serpent and the Rope as a Metaphor for a Mistake = 261
• The Son of a Barren Woman as a Metaphor for Impossibility = 263
• The Crow and the Palm Tree as a Metaphor for Pure Chance = 265
• The Magic City in the Sky as a Metaphor for Illusion = 268
• Indian and Western Arguments = 279
• Projection in Art and Reality = 279
• Detail and Banality in Surrealistic Illusion = 286
• The Artist as a Magician = 289
• God as an Artist = 293
• CONCLUSION = 297
• Serendipity and Obsession = 297
• The Dream That Wanders in the Daylight = 299
• APPENDIXES = 305
• 1. The Erotic Dream in China = 305
• 2. The Dream Adventure in China and Ireland = 305
• 3. Stories from the Yogav$$\bar a$$sistha Told (or Cited) in This Book = 308
• NOTES = 311
• BIBLIOGRAPHY = 339
• INDEX OF NAMES AND TERMS = 347
• SUBJECT INDEX = 357