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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812820003321

Autore

Blass Rachel B. <1961->

Titolo

The meaning of the dream in psychoanalysis / / Rachel B. Blass

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002

ISBN

0-7914-8883-7

0-585-46400-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in dream studies

Disciplina

154.6/3

Soggetti

Dream interpretation

Dreams

Psychoanalysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Context: Conceptual Clarification and Previous Research -- Freud’s Justification of His Dream Theory in the Interpretation of Dreams -- Can the Application of Psychoanalytic Principles to the Dream be Justified? -- Developments Regarding the Dream Theory and its Justification after Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams -- The “Experiential Quality of Meaningfulness” and the Overcoming of the Obstacle to the Holistic Justification of the Dream Theory -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.