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Dreams have a meaning
In what we may term “prescientific days” people were in no uncertainty about
the interpretation of dreams. When they were recalled after awakening they
were regarded as either the friendly or hostile manifestation of some higher
powers, demoniacal and Divine. With the rise of scientific thought the whole
of this expressive mythology was transferred to psychology; to-day there is
but a small minority among educated persons who doubt that the dream is the
dreamer’s own psychical act.
But since the downfall of the mythological hypothesis an interpretation of
the dream has been wanting. The conditions of its origin; its relationship to
our psychical life when we are awake; its independence of disturbances
which, during the state of sleep, seem to compel notice; its many peculiarities
repugnant to our waking thought; the incongruence between its images and
the feelings they engender; then the dream’s evanescence, the way in which,
on awakening, our thoughts thrust it aside as something bizarre, and our
reminiscences mutilating or rejecting it—all these and many other problems
have for many hundred years demanded answers which up till now could
never have been satisfactory. Before all there is the question as to the meaning
of the dream, a question which is in itself double-sided. There is, firstly, the
psychical significance of the dream, its position with regard to the psychical
processes, as to a possible biological function; secondly, has the dream a
meaning—can sense be made of each single dream as of other mental
syntheses?
Three tendencies can be observed in the estimation of dreams. Many
philosophers have given currency to one of these tendencies, one which at the
same time preserves something of the dream’s former over-valuation. The
foundation of dream life is for them a peculiar state of psychical activity,
which they even celebrate as elevation to some higher state. Schubert, for
instance, claims: “The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of
external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.” Not all
go so far as this, but many maintain that dreams have their origin in real
spiritual excitations, and are the outward manifestations of spiritual powers
whose free movements have been hampered during the day (“Dream
Phantasies,” Scherner, Volkelt). A large number of observers acknowledge
that dream life is capable of extraordinary achievements—at any rate, in
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Buch Dream Psychology"
Dream Psychology
- Titel
- Dream Psychology
- Autor
- Sigmund Freud
- Datum
- 1920
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- PD
- Abmessungen
- 21.0 x 29.7 cm
- Seiten
- 114
- Schlagwörter
- Neurology, Neurologie, Träume, Psycholgie, Traum
- Kategorien
- Geisteswissenschaften
- International
- Medizin
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction 4
- Chapter 1: Dreams have a meaning 9
- Chapter 2: The Dream mechanism 20
- Chapter 3: Why the dream diguises the desire 34
- Chapter 4: Dream analysis 43
- Chapter 5: Sex in dreams 54
- Chapter 6: The Wish in dreams 67
- Chapter 7: The Function of the dream 79
- Chapter 8: The Primary and Secondary process - Regression 89
- Chapter 9: The Unconscious and Consciousness - Reality 104