Fall 2012
Psy 322, Myth, Dream and Symbol
Thurs 1 - 4:40 pm, Stevenson 3042
Texts:
Bill Plotkin, Nature and the Human Soul
Robert Johnson, Inner Work
Archives for Research in Archetypal Symbolism, The Book of Symbols
A Reader will be available for purchase at the Copy Shop on E. Cotati Ave. after the start of classes. Texts will be available the first week of classes from North Light Books on E. Cotati in the shopping plaza across from campus; or ordered online from Amazon, half.com or other online sources.
Film Resources: Dreams
Appointment with the Wise Old Dog 30” www.davidblummusiciananddreamer.com/dreamer.htm
The Brain: Sleep: Brain Functions 1997 11” www.learner.org/resources/series142.html#
The Brain: REM Sleep and Dreaming 1997 10” www.learner.org/resources/series142.html#
The Edge of Dreaming 2011 76” Amy Hardie film about her dreams
The Mind Awake and Asleep, Discovering Psychology series 2001 27” REM cycles, Hobson
Way of the Dream 2008 10 hours of film, Interviews with Marie-Louise von Franz and many others on dreams
What are Dreams? Nova 2009 51”
Websites
www.asdreams.org
www.asdreams.org/videofil
Popular Films
Arizona Dream
Dreams Kurasawa
Inception
Lathe of Heaven
Living in Oblivion
Matrix
Paprika
Science of Sleep
Film Resources: Myth and Symbol
Power of Myth, Bill Moyer’s Interviews with Joseph Campbell
Praying with Images, Meinrad Craighead 2009 60”
Protagonist 2007 90” mythic structure in 4 men’s lives
The Hero’s Journey, Joseph Campbell
The Mill and the Cross 2011 90” symbolic work in Breugel’s Journey to Calvary