Dreaming about the body: Daniel 2:32–35 interpreted from a psychoanalytical perspective
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Dreaming about the body: Daniel 2:32–35 interpreted from a psychoanalytical perspective | |
| Creator | van der Zwan, Pieter | |
| Description | Just as the text is layered by redactional processes and its effects by reception processes, so different meanings of the statue of a human body in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream can be psychoanalytically ‘excavated’. Following a typical psychoanalytical dream interpretation, the possibility has therefore been explored of the body referring to the king as an individual before it was reinterpreted as a societal, collective body, the latter serving as a defence against the anxiety which the former would cause. Re-experiencing these common, human, unconscious anxieties and processing them could facilitate psychological healing and health, especially in the postmodern, pluralistic and eco-threatened context, which the dream seems to adumbrate. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2018-11-22 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/hts.v74i3.5095 | |
| Source | HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 74, No 3 (2018); 8 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422 | |
| Language | eng | |
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