





The Beautiful and the Grotesque-or-Female Body in Dreams: Part 2
The Feminine Body Myth -or- Feminine Dreams and Nightmares
The synoptic interpretation, "The Human Body -or- Multidisciplinary Dream Research of Dream Vision" provides a cultural psychodynamic perspective for understanding how modern body images found in dreams are produced. Women's modern myth making body images found in dreams remain "schizotypal", divided between the mythopoetic dreams of beauty and the nightmares of the grotesque. The literary anatomy of women's imagination in its light and dark mythopoetic sides can be revealed when researching women's dreams.
I. Anatomy of the Female Beauty Myth in the Global Village
- The Female Nude
- Picturing Ourselves
- Hollywood's Pictures in the Head
- Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
- Visual Laws of Attraction
- Venus and Visual Erotic Pleasure in Dreams
- Remembering Marilyn Munroe -or- Popular Ode to Norma Jean
- Ode to Women's English Poetry
- Journey to Fantasy Island
- Citizen Lynn
- Queen of My Postmodern Domain
- Sexual Dream Education and the Dream of Love
- On Face-work in Dreams
- Singing the Body Electric
- The Polymorph Perverse Body
- Dreaming of One's Pleasures
- Labyrinths of Desire
- French Kissing in China
- Burlesque
- Who Will Write the History of Sexual Dreams
- Vagina Monologues
- Ecology of Family Dreams -or- Anatomy of Planned Parenting
- The Secret Source of Femininity
- Breast Feeding in Lithuania
- The Baby Shower
- In Telepathic Dreams
- Moonstruck in South Africa
- Women's Bodies, Women's Dreams: Menopause
- Poetics of a Women's Autobiography
- Patriarchal Poetry -or- A Room of Her Own
II. Feminist Literary Criticism and the Dark Side of Femininity
Women's alienation can be made audible and visible using dreams. A feminist literary reading of women's dreams, illustrates the grotesque realism found in many women's dreams. Here are some the dream interpretations that speak about what Kate Millett called "Sexual Politics", which from a women's dreams perspective creates the literary anatomy of the grotesque.
- Feminist Criticism -or- Mysteries of Dallas
- Gender Ideology in the Mirror
- Hollywood Dream Factory -or- Manufacture of Body Genres
- Doll's House
- Valley of the Dolls
- What is Trash Culture?
- Thong Girl
- Cybersex, Porn Stars and the Adult Entertainment Industry
- The Exotic Dancers Navel
- Pornographic Visual Culture
- Darwin and the Anatomy of Disgust
- The Grotesque Body
- Rape
- The Evil Eye of Medusa
- The Body in Pain
- Self-Neglect in the Netherlands -or- Reparation and Self Love
- Girl Interupted -or- Self Mutilation
- PMS
- Post-Partum
- I've Got You under my Skin
- Helen Christensen's Story
- Autopsy of a Marriage
- Grey's Anatomy of the Medical Ego -or- Autopsy of a Child's Ego
- Who Will Write the History of Tears