[The Dreams of Women]

Goodison, Lucy, Smith, Jocelyn, Herizons

Dreams are like gifts on offer every night in wrapping which often remains unopened," Lucy Goodison writes. "Many of us are fascinated, curious, sometimes frightened by them. We want to know: can we find out what our dreams mean?"

Goodison is a freelance journalist in London who for sixteen years has run workshops to help women understand and use their dreams. Her intelligent and well-written book begins with a discussion of conventional methods of interpreting dreams. Goodison acknowledges Freud's contribution, but adds that "his ideas on dreams were limited by his sex, race, class, generation, and prejudices... We see this when he misunderstands the experience of women, or …

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Publication information: Article title: [The Dreams of Women]. Contributors: Goodison, Lucy - Author, Smith, Jocelyn - Author. Magazine title: Herizons. Volume: 12. Issue: 2 Publication date: Summer 1998. Page number: 37. © 2008 Herizons Magazine, Inc. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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