The Meaning of the Dream in Psychoanalysis

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The Freudian claim that dreams are meaningful and that their meanings can be discovered through dream interpretation has in recent times come under harsh attack from both scientific and hermeneutic-psychoanalytic circles. In a forceful response to these critiques, Rachel Blass demonstrates that while Freud and his followers have thus far failed to provide adequate justification for his dream theory, such justification may now be found through an alternate and legitimate—yet neglected—route, one that establishes both scientifically and philosophically the relationship between the self of the dreamer and that of the awake individual. The implications of this argument are both practical and theoretical: by providing sorely absent scientific and philosophical grounding to the very foundations of dream interpretation, the book clarifies and broadens the possibilities of dream interpretation within the clinical setting, and breaks new ground in the field of psychoanalytic epistemology and the philosophy of the human sciences.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Context: Conceptual Clarification and Previous Research

2. Freud's Justification of His Dream Theory in The Interpretation of Dreams

3. Can the Application of Psychoanalytic Principles to the Dream be Justified?

4. Developments Regarding the Dream Theory and Its Justification after Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams

5. The "Experiential Quality of Meaningfulness"and the Overcoming of the Obstacle to the Holistic Justification of the Dream Theory

6. Conclusions

Notes

References

Index

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	01 février 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780791488836
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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The Meaning of the Dream in Psychoanalysis

SUNY series in Dream Studies Robert L. Van de Castle, editor

T H E M E A N I N G O F T H E D R E A M I N P S Y C H O A N A L Y S I S

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Rachel B. Blass

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Blass, Rachel B., 1961– The meaning of the dream in psychoanalysis / Rachel B. Blass. p. cm. — (SUNY series in dream studies) Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0–7914–5317–0 (alk. paper)—ISBN 0–7914–5318–9 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Dream interpretation. 2. Dreams. 3. Psychoanalysis. I. Title. II. Series.

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Freud’s Justification of His Dream Theory inThe Interpretation of Dreams

The Context: Conceptual Clarification and Previous Research

Developments Regarding the Dream Theory and Its Justification after Freud’sThe Interpretation of Dreams

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Chapter 3.

Conclusions

Can the Application of Psychoanalytic Principles to the Dream be Justified?

Chapter 1.

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The “Experiential Quality of Meaningfulness” and the Overcoming of the Obstacle to the Holistic Justification of the Dream Theory

C O N T E N T S

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Index

Chapter 6.

Chapter 2.

Introduction

Chapter 4.

Chapter 5.

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A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S

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his book was made possible in part by grants from the Israel Foundation T Trustees. Chapter 2 incorporates some ideas I expressed in my paper “The Limitations of Critical Studies of the Epistemology of Freud’s Dream Theory and their Clinical Implications,” which appears inPsychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought,24 (2001). I am thankful to International Universities Press for permission to use that material.

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Introduction

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Books are the entryway to dreams. —Fernando Pessoa,The Book of Disquiet

rom the time of antiquity the dream has mystified humankind. F The desire to know the meaning of the images that pass through our mind in the course of sleep, the meaning of the strange events that happen to us then, and the stories with which we wake up and have been waking up since childhood, have led over the generations to a range of theories regarding the dream and its meaning. Many of these theories may be read as warnings to those who wish to penetrate the mystery: “There is nothing to be sought there, the dream has no meaning.” Freud (1856–1939), more than any other modern-day investigator, would not heed such warnings. He took it upon himself to dis-cover the meaning of the apparently meaningless; to reveal the secrets of the mind that seem to elude comprehension. It was his ardent wish to know the dream, for him a last bastion of mental products that seemed to refuse to suc-cumb to human understanding. Freud asserts that it was on July 24, 1895, that “the secret of the dream revealed itself to Dr. Sigm. Freud” (Freud, 1985, p. 417). It was approximately five years later that he published his most comprehensive statement on this rev-elation, appearing in his best-known bookThe Interpretation of Dreams(1900). There he presents in detail what were to become the foundations and the heart of the psychoanalytic theory regarding the meaning of dreams. The present book comes to critically examine this theory. The question it deals with is an epistemological one: What is the justification for the assertion that we know or can come to know a meaning of a dream? To further demar-

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