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A Dream of Love: Interpreting the Dream Ballet in OSF’s Oklahoma!

Kelly Bulkeley — Thu, 03 May 2018 23:24:11 +0000

Peeling away Freudian assumptions to reach a deeper human truth about the capacity to love. A radiant new production of the musical Oklahoma! at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival re-interprets a classic American love story for contemporary audiences. With bold innovations in casting, staging, and choreography, the OSF production differs in many ways from the 1943 …

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Dreaming and Theater: A Dynamic Connection

Kelly Bulkeley — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 21:22:36 +0000

In August of 1991 I joined a group of dream researchers from the U.S. and Western Europe on a journey to Golitsyno, a conference center just outside Moscow in the former Soviet Union, where we planned to meet several Soviet researchers for a gathering organized by Jungian analyst Robert Bosnak. Just hours after our plane …

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Freud and Neuroscience: A Return to Origins

Kelly Bulkeley — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:51:47 +0000

A chapter I wrote with that title appears in the recently published book Disciplining Freud on Religion: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences, edited by Gregory Kaplan and William B. Parsons (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010). Here is the abstract: “Freud developed psychoanalysis on the basis of a neurological model of human mental functioning. Scholars and …

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