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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459534903321

Autore

Colace Claudio

Titolo

Children's dreams : from Freud's observations to modern dream research / / by Claudio Colace

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]

©2010

ISBN

0-429-89766-9

0-429-47289-7

1-282-77973-7

9786612779732

1-84940-727-4

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

154.63083

Soggetti

Children's dreams

Dream interpretation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the Italian.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-217) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; About The Author; Introduction: Freud's dream theory and modern dream research; PART I: AN ATTEMPT TO SYSTEMATICALLY DESCRIBE FREUD'S OBSERVATIONS ON CHILDREN'S DREAMS; PART II: EMPIRICAL EVALUATION OF FREUD'S OBSERVATIONS ON CHILDREN'S DREAMS; References

Sommario/riassunto

This book aims to present a study on the actuality and empirical value of Freuds dream theory, even if through the analysis of a specific part of it - the hypotheses about childrens dreams. It provides a systematic description of Freuds observations on child dreaming and presents the results obtained from four empirical studies on childrens dreams that the author conducted during the span of a decade. These studies (two conducted in school settings, one in a home setting, and one based on a questionnaire completed by parents) allow an empirical judgment on Freuds main hypotheses on child dreaming: the hypotheses on formal aspect of childrens dreams, the relationship between dream bizarreness and development of the superego functions, and the issue



of wish-fulfilment dreams. The author concludes that it is possible to test empirically Freuds hypothesis on the early forms of dreaming and that this test is not irrelevant for an empirical judgment of certain more general statements of Freuds dream theory (e.g. the dream censorship hypothesis)