Freud's Interpretation of Dreams

A Reappraisal
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-24416-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 231 g

Freud always regarded The Interpretation of Dreams, and in particular its thesis that dreams fulfill wishes, as his landmark contribution and the scaffolding of his subsequent work. Susan Sugarman, after carefully examining the text and scrutinizing a range of Freud's other works, shows that the dreams book is not and cannot be that scaffolding. For, not only does his argument on dreams falter, but his reasoning elsewhere – in his case histories, his accounts of phenomena of ordinary waking life, and even his avowedly speculative writing – displays a strength and precision his account of dreams lacks. She concludes by exploring what is then left of the dreams theory and Freud's overall vision of the mind.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sugarman, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part I. The Interpretation of Dreams (1900): A note on Freud's text; 1. The interpretation of dreams chapters 1-4: background, method, and the hypothesis of wish-fulfillment; 2. The interpretation of dreams chapters 5-6: if dreams fulfill wishes with what material, and how might they form?; 3. The interpretation of dreams chapter 7: the psychology of dream processes; 4. The interpretation of dreams: a preliminary appraisal; Part II. Freud's Other Works; 5. The analysis of psychoneuroses: Elisabeth von R and the 'Wolf Man'; 6. Phenomena of ordinary waking life; 7. Speculative works; 8. Freud on dreams.

Über Autor(innen)

Sugarman, Susan
Susan Sugarman is Professor of Psychology at Princeton University, USA, and a former Fulbright scholar and Guggenheim fellow. Her most recent book is What Freud Really Meant: A Chronological Reconstruction of his Theory of the Mind (Cambridge University Press, 2016).