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Autore |
Blass Rachel B. <1961-> |
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Titolo |
The meaning of the dream in psychoanalysis / / Rachel B. Blass |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002 |
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ISBN |
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0-7914-8883-7 |
0-585-46400-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (243 p.) |
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Collana |
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SUNY series in dream studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Dream interpretation |
Dreams |
Psychoanalysis |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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