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E-book The Muses of Truth and Transformation

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The key event in this first part of the tale occurs when the old fisherman innocently opens the sealed flask he found, and the Djinn materializes from the bottle, and threatens to kill the old man. How are we to interpret this opening event?If this were someone’s dream, a common psychological interpretation would be that the Djinn, imprisoned in the bottle, represents a repressed, unconscious element in the person’s psyche, such as a trauma that the individual could not deal with. The emotions elicited by the traumatic memory can be so intense, it threatens to overwhelm the individual – which the dream symbolizes as a threat of physical death.Today, psychological interpretations of dreams may seem antiquated because many neuroscientists now consider dreams to be a normal part of everyday, neuro-physiological processes. This would explain why all known vertebrates have REM sleep. We humans, however, often wake up remembering one dream because it stands out for some reason. Out of the many dreams the sleeping brain produces each night, the awakening brain recognizes one is different and important. This is like the fisherman dragging up worthless things, but when he hauls up the sealed flask, he immediately recognizes the latter may be something valuable. So, he investigates further.The same unconscious selection process occurs with a more familiar situation: sometimes we struggle to solve a problem during the day, sleep on it, and then the next morning think of the problem’s solution. The unconscious brain produces something the waking one recognizes is meaningful, namely, how to solve a par-ticular problem. Asimilar process occurs when we try to remember someone’s name and cannot do so. Then some hours later, out of the blue, a name pops up, which we recognize is the correct one.Folktales with enduring insights emerge in an analogous process. As mentioned earlier, in the narrative natural selection process, people spontaneously tell stories to each other, but only those that ring true to many people in different situations are passed on. The folktales contain insights about common human problems and solutions that worked. Timeless folk stories are thus equivalent to the dreams we spontaneously recognize to be significant, and thus worthy of a further look. Folk stories are like the dreams of human communities often with important messages for the group.If we interpret the murderous Djinn leaping out from the bottle as a comment for a common community problem, what might it mean today? One parallel is readily evident today: in the middle of our everyday lives, an angry loner sometimes leaps out and proceeds to shoot innocent people at a night club or school. Or isolated, dis-affected individuals join terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS and then massacre innocent civilians.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

150.1 CHI t

Penerbit

USA : Taylor & Francis., 2025

Deskripsi Fisik

184 hlm

Bahasa

Jawa

ISBN/ISSN

9781003471028

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150.1

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

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online resource

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Subjek

Philosophy and Theory of Psychology

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