The meaning of the dream in psychoanalysis /

"The Freudian claim that dreams are meaningful and that their meanings can be discovered through dream interpretation has in recent times come under harsh attack from both scientific and hermeneutic-psychoanalytic circles. In a forceful response to these critiques, Rachel Blass demonstrates tha...

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Main Author: Blass, Rachel B., 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2002
Series:SUNY series in dream studies.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The Context: Conceptual Clarification and Previous Research
  • Freud's Justification of His Dream Theory in The Interpretation of Dreams
  • Can the Application of Psychoanalytic Principles to the Dream be Justified?
  • Developments Regarding the Dream Theory and Its Justification after Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams
  • The "Experiential Quality of Meaningfulness" and the Overcoming of the Obstacle to the Holistic Justification of the Dream Theory.