title: The dreams of Aelius Aristides: A psychological interpretation
creator: Stephens, John C.
subject: ddc-300
subject: 300 Social sciences
description: The topic of this article is the religious experience of Aelius Aristides, a second century A.D. sophist. Aristides was a member of the cult of Asclepius, a Greco-Roman religious healing cult.  Aristides recorded his experiences in this cult and this personal narrative includes detailed descriptions of many of Aristides’ dreams. This unusual diary is called the Sacred Tales. Our psychological analysis of Aristides’ religiosity will begin by assessing the numerical frequency of the dream images appearing in the manifest-contents of Aristides’ dreams. Our identification of the predominant images in the manifest contents of Aristides’ dreams will help us to decode the latent unconscious meaning of several of Aristides’ dreams.  Our goal is to identify the main source of Aristides’ psychological problems.
date: 2012
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
identifier: ojs:
identifier: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/9271
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-141473
identifier:   Stephens, John C.  (2012) The dreams of Aelius Aristides: A psychological interpretation.  International Journal of Dream Research, 5 (1).  pp. 76-86.      
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/14147/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
rights: Please see front page of the work (Sorry, Dublin Core plugin does not recognise license id)
language: eng