The Dream Discourse Today
Sara Flanders(Editor)
Routledge (Publisher)
Published on 10. June 1993
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-415-09354-5 (ISBN)
Description
"The Dream Discourse Today" offers a 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 first paper provides an orientation to the subject, developing the theme of the relationship between the psychoanalytic understanding of dream formation and the psychoanalytic situation itself. It hints at the growing problems in dream interpretation - the necessity to focus on the function of the dream, the patient's use of the dream life, and the potential perversion of the dream in the psychic economy of the more disturbed patient. Virtually all the papers in the third section of the book look at this problem.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-09354-5 (9780415093545)
Copyright in bibliographic data is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or its licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification