The Meaning of the Dream in Psychoanalysis by Rachel B Blass

The Meaning of the Dream in Psychoanalysis by Rachel B Blass

Offers scientific and philosophical support to the Freudian claim that dreams are meaningful and that their meanings can be discovered through dream interpretation. 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 that while Freud and his followers have thus far failed to provide adequate justification for his dream theory, such justification may now be found through an alternate and legitimate-yet neglected-route, one that establishes both scientifically and philosophically the relationship between the self of the dreamer and that of the awake individual. The implications of this argument are both practical and theoretical: by providing sorely absent scientific and philosophical grounding to the very foundations of dream interpretation, the book clarifies and broadens the possibilities of dream interpretation within the clinical setting, and breaks new ground in the field of psychoanalytic epistemology and the philosophy of the human sciences.

Rachel B. Blass is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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ISBN 13	9780791453186
ISBN 10	0791453189
Title	The Meaning of the Dream in Psychoanalysis
Author	Rachel B Blass
Series	Suny Series In Dream Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	2002-04-04
Number of pages	242
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