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Dream Life : A Re-examination of the Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique.
Title:
Dream Life : A Re-examination of the Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique.
Author:
Meltzer, Donald.
ISBN:
9781780493626
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (188 pages)
Series:
The Harris Meltzer Trust Series
Contents:
COVER -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- PART A - THEORETICAL BACKGROUND -- I Freud's View of the Dream as the Guardian of Sleep -- II The Epistemological Problem in the Theory of Dreams -- III The Klein-Bion Expansion of Freud's Metapsychology -- PART B - A REVISED THEORY OF DREAM-LIFE -- IV Dreams as Unconscious Thinking -- V Symbols, Signs, Epitome, Quintessence -- VI Dream-life: the Generative Theatre of Meaning -- VII The Interaction of Visual and Verbal Language in Dreams -- VIII The Borderland between Dreams and Hallucinations -- PART C - THE PRACTICE OF DREAM INVESTIGATION -- IX The Borderland between Dreams and Actions -- X Dream-exploration and Dream-analysis -- XI Dream-narrative and Dream-continuity -- XII Resistance to Dream-analysis in Patient and Analyst -- XIII The Relation of Dreaming to Learning from Experience in Patient and Analyst -- XIV Recovery from Analysis and the Self-analytic Method -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
"Dreams are my landscape", said Meltzer. In this book he re-establishes psychoanalysis as the art of reading dreams, and dream-life as the core of mental processes. Dreams are not just puzzles to be decoded, the effluence of past trauma or future wish-fulfilment; they are the psyche's attempt - with a varying level of aesthetic achievement - to symbolise its present emotional conflicts in order to re-orient itself toward "the real world - meaning external and internal reality".
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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