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Dream Play and Discovering Cultural Psychology
Author(s) -
Mageo Jeannette Marie
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
ethos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.783
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1548-1352
pISSN - 0091-2131
DOI - 10.1525/eth.2001.29.2.187
Subject(s) - samoan , dream , indigenous , feeling , gestalt psychology , psychology , sociology , epistemology , aesthetics , social psychology , art , philosophy , psychotherapist , ecology , biology , linguistics , neuroscience , perception
Dream play is a method of dream analysis I crafted to help fathom the cultural psychology of Samoan dreams. Drawing on Samoan aptitude for performance, this method combines elements of Gestalt role‐playing and Jungian active imagination. What I discovered through the method was a Samoan "kea complex," a bipolar constellation of ideas and feelings that reveals pivotal aspects of postcolonial psychocultural dynamics in Samoa and probably in other locations as well. This dynamic revolves around notions of relationality, engagement, and self that hybridize indigenous Samoan psychological schemata with Western Christian models of care.