Authors: Sara Flanders, Elizabeth Bott Spillius
ISBN-13: 9780415093552, ISBN-10: 0415093554
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: January 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)
The Dream Discourse Today offers an unrivalled synoptic view of key American, British and French papers on dream analysis in clinical practice. The purpose of the book is to show the reader different, well articulated perspectives, place them in historical context, and invite comparative reading. The cumulative effect of both papers and introductions is to leave the reader with an informed sense of the range of perspectives and a confidence in the continued relevance of dream analysis to practice, as some striking convergences in the implications of thinking drawn from very different approaches becomes clear.
The Dream Discourse Today is the first historical and theoretical survey of its subject and the classic nature of the papers it includes will make it a first-class work of reference for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists of all schools, whether in practice or still training. It should be of especial interest to those who teach courses on the theory of technique, since the place of dream analysis is almost certain to be one of the central topics in such courses.
Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Dream psychology and the evolution of the psychoanalytic situation | 29 |
2 | Dreams in clinical psychoanalytic practice | 49 |
3 | The exceptional position of the dream in psychoanalytic practice | 64 |
4 | The use and abuse of dream in psychic experience | 91 |
5 | The function of dreams | 100 |
6 | Dream as an object | 108 |
7 | The experiencing of the dream and the transference | 122 |
8 | Some reflections on analytic listening and the dream screen | 127 |
9 | The film of the dream | 137 |
10 | The manifest dream content and its significance for the interpretation of dreams | 153 |
11 | A psychoanalytic-dream continuum: the source and function of dreams | 181 |
12 | Dreaming and the organizing function of the ego | 195 |
13 | Psychoanalytic phenomenology of the dream | 213 |
Name index | 229 | |
Subject index | 232 |