Dream Life

A Re-examination of the Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique

By (author) Donald Meltzer

Extent: 222 pages

Publisher: The Harris Meltzer Trust

Subjects: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, & Psychotherapy

Language: English

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(April 2018)

ISBN: 9781912567126

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Donald Meltzer re-establishes psychoanalysis as the art of reading dreams, and dream-life as the core of mental processes, placing the experience of the consulting room in the context of contemporary philosophical ideas about the origins and development of language.

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

Foreword by Meg Harris Williams PART A: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 1. Freud's view of the dream as the guardian of sleep 2. The epistemological problem in the theory of dreams 3. The Klein-Bion expansion of Freud's metapsychology PART B: A REVISED THEORY OF DREAM LIFE 4. Dreams as unconscious thinking 5. Symbols, signs, epitome, quintessence 6. Dream-life: the generative theatre of meaning 7. The interaction of visual and verbal language in dreams 8. The borderland between dreams and hallucinations PART C: THE PRACTICE OF DREAM INVESTIGATION 9. The borderland between dreams and actions 10. Dream exploration and dream analysis 11. Dream narrative and dream continuity 12. Resistance to dream analysis in patient and analyst 13. The relation of dreaming to learning from experience in patient and analyst 14. Recovery from analysis and the self-analytic method References Index,

Foreword by Meg Harris Williams

PART A: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

1. Freud’s view of the dream as the guardian of sleep
2. The epistemological problem in the theory of dreams
3. The Klein-Bion expansion of Freud’s metapsychology

PART B: A REVISED THEORY OF DREAM LIFE

4. Dreams as unconscious thinking
5. Symbols, signs, epitome, quintessence
6. Dream-life: the generative theatre of meaning
7. The interaction of visual and verbal language in dreams
8. The borderland between dreams and hallucinations

PART C: THE PRACTICE OF DREAM INVESTIGATION

9. The borderland between dreams and actions
10. Dream exploration and dream analysis
11. Dream narrative and dream continuity
12. Resistance to dream analysis in patient and analyst
13. The relation of dreaming to learning from experience in patient and analyst
14. Recovery from analysis and the self-analytic method

References
Index

By (author) Donald Meltzer

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