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M On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Merle Lester <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > *NEWLY AVAILABLE! > THE DREAM OF CULTURE: Essays on Culture’s Elusiveness > By Howard F. Stein > > * > *COLLEGE INSTRUCTORS may receive a free copy of this exciting, > groundbreaking book. **Simply respond to this email indicating you will > request that your library order a copy.* > *[image: Developmental Time, Cultural > Space]<http://www.benchmarkemail.com/c/l?u=28C0C05&e=320495&c=4BF35&t=0&l=4E9ADE8&email=ixXm0ij%2BbPTN6%2BIQ4YtZ3gUPiXYo5miE> > * > *Pages: *440 pages* > Publisher: > *Library of Social Science/Psyche > Press<http://www.benchmarkemail.com/c/l?u=28C0C06&e=320495&c=4BF35&t=0&l=4E9ADE8&email=ixXm0ij%2BbPTN6%2BIQ4YtZ3gUPiXYo5miE> > * > Author: > *Howard F. 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He has the capacity to see straight through to the meaning of > things, and to understand it and express it with precision—a quality people > used to refer to as genius. This wide ranging book is a feast." > * —Howard S. Schwartz, Oakland University, author of * *Narcissistic > Process and Corporate Decay* > "Howard Stein is one of the world’s most original thinkers in the human > sciences." > * —Robert Endleman, Ph.D., author of * *Psyche and Society* > ------------------------------ > *About the Author:* Howard F. Stein is Professor at the University of > Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of Family and Preventive > Medicine. He is the author of 26 books and over 250 published papers and > chapters. > *Morpheus introduces The Matrix to Neo: "You’ve felt your entire life > that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but > it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad."* > *Don’t many of us have a similar feeling each day as we witness a > strange, bizarre world presented to us as "reality"? Is it sufficient to > "critique" this world? Perhaps more radical inquiry is called for.* > *In The Dream of Culture, renowned anthropologist Howard Stein > interrogates the shared fantasy in which we are immersed: the dream we call > reality.* > *We urge you to read this exciting, groundbreaking book.* > *Culture as a Dream* > This book attempts to unravel a paradox: namely, that human beings, for > most of our lives, and human culture, for most of its history, strive to > keep emotionally and intellectually asleep while priding ourselves on being > wide awake. Just as the work of dreaming is to safeguard sleep, much of the > work of culture is likewise to keep us from thinking, feeling, or knowing > too much during waking hours. > > Much of culture is not "like" dreaming, in the sense of poetic license’s > love of fantastic simile. Nor is it mere analogy. It is day’s counterpart > to night. In culture, ours is the tragic conceit to dream that we are not > dreaming and to make wakefulness the most heinous sin. Dreaming together is > our sensing together—consensus—in cultural groups. Culture is our dreaming > while we are wide awake. > The work of culture is also the work of dreams. "Reality" is far more > elusive than we dare admit. We weave our tenuous net over anxiety’s abyss > with the substance of dreaming. To say this is not to stretch some metaphor > or take literary license. People in groups, awake, do with their shared > symbolic and ritual materials, their technology and their environment what > we each do while asleep: wish what we may dare and disguise our wishes; > contrive our forbidden victories and stage our defeats; attempt to master > what we have found overwhelming. > If night dreaming takes place on a screen upon which are projected our > unconscious wishes, fantasies, and feelings, our day dreaming is > constructed and projected upon a screen we objectify and call "culture" or > "society." We project these "hopes and fears of all the years"—as the > tender Christmas carol, "O Little Town of Bethlehem" so yearningly > sings—upon and into the social symbols and institutions of politics, > religion, law, cosmology, economics, and so on. > *Culture as a Symbolic Object* > We construe culture as an independent, self-standing entity beyond > ourselves—a symbolic object to which we imagine we belong. We transfer > feelings from our earliest mothering figures, families and memories to > groups—in which we try to capture safety and security—to make us again feel > at one with our parental nurturers and protectors. > In "culture shock" and "future shock," the loss of culture—which > represents a catastrophic crisis of identity—is experienced as object-loss. > Culture (or group) is represented as a fantasized maternal object with > which tribalists feel themselves to be inextricably tied and upon which > they feel themselves to be wholly dependent. > *We want as many people as possible to read this exciting, > groundbreaking book. Therefore, we are offering a free copy to college > instructors if you will simply ask your library to order a copy. Please > respond to this email—write to [email protected]—providing > your name and the name of your college or university. We will send you a free > electronic copy of the entire book (identical to the physical copy, > including the front & back cover).* > Culture is experienced as a "dual unity" whose "body" the tribalist does > not distinguish from his/her very selfhood. It is little wonder that > tribalists and anthropologists alike commit the fallacy of misplaced > concreteness in their conceptualizations of culture: one truly experiences > his/her group to be "superorganic"—transcending the self yet part of the > (symbiotic) self. > In this formulation, loss of culture is the fantasized loss of an > environment that mirrors and embodies the "goodness" upon which one > depends. "Culture"—experienced as an entity—is one member of a class of > *symbolic > objects *whose psychic function is to represent and perpetuate object > relations that have been disrupted by death or other forms of loss. The > subject of culture shock is the experience of estrangement from—loss and > "death" of—culture, *as though *it were an object, or object > representation. > *Culture as Shared Fantasy* > How may we account for these collective representations that give rise to > various forms of reality? Richard Koenigsberg suggests that cultural ideas, > beliefs and values may be viewed as an "institutionalization and social > embodiment of primal human phantasies." He proposes that we carefully comb > the cultural texts for primary process imagery embedded in official > culture, for those parapraxes and metaphors that make their incursion into > ordinary language. For instance, in his content analysis of Hitler's > ideology as expressed in published works, speeches, and secret writings, > Koenigsberg states as his methodological premise that "the frequency with > which a given idea or association appears reflects the centrality of such > an element within the framework of [the] belief system." > *Culture as Projection* > In *The Ego and the Id,* Freud wrote: "The ego is first and foremost a > bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection > of a surface." Extending this formulation, I argue that just as the ego > uses the body as a battlefield upon which to play out, displace, and > project dangers and wishes too great to incorporate into itself, the ego > likewise uses society and nature as a surface upon which to project and > represent itself. In *Life against Death*, Norman O. Brown wrote that > "Human culture is a set of projections of the repressed unconscious. 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