Dream Life: A Re-examination of the Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique

Dream Life: A Re-examination of the Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique
ISBN-10
191256713X
ISBN-13
9781912567133
Series
Dream Life
Category
Psychology
Pages
222
Language
English
Published
2019-04-30
Publisher
Phoenix Publishing House
Author
Donald Meltzer

Description

"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".

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