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The Sociological Interpretation of Dreams
Buch von Bernard Lahire
Sprache: Englisch

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For Freud, dreams were the royal road to the unconscious: through the process of interpretation, the manifest and sometimes bewildering content of dreams can be traced back to the unconscious representations underlying it. But can we understand dreams in another way by considering how the unconscious is structured by our social experiences?

This is hypothesis that underlies this highly original book by Bernard Lahire, who argues that dreams can be interpreted sociologically by seeing the dream as a nocturnal form of self-to-self communication. Lahire rejects Freud's view that the manifest dream content is the result of a process of censorship: as a form of self-to-self communication, the dream is the symbolic arena most completely freed from all forms of censorship. In Lahire's view, the dream is a message which can be understood only by relating it to the social world of the dreamer, and in particular to the problems that concern him or her during waking life. As a form of self-to-self communication, the dream is an intimate private diary, providing us with the elements of a profound and subtle understanding of who and what we are. Studying dreams enables us to discover our most deep-seated and hidden preoccupations, and to understand the thought processes that operate within us, beyond the reach of our volition.

The study of dreams and dreaming has largely been the preserve of psychoanalysis, psychology and neuroscience. By showing how dreams are connected to the lived experience of individuals in the social world, this highly original book puts dreams and dreaming at the heart of the social sciences. It will be of great value to students and scholars in sociology, psychology and psychoanalysis and to anyone interested in the nature and meaning of dreams.
For Freud, dreams were the royal road to the unconscious: through the process of interpretation, the manifest and sometimes bewildering content of dreams can be traced back to the unconscious representations underlying it. But can we understand dreams in another way by considering how the unconscious is structured by our social experiences?

This is hypothesis that underlies this highly original book by Bernard Lahire, who argues that dreams can be interpreted sociologically by seeing the dream as a nocturnal form of self-to-self communication. Lahire rejects Freud's view that the manifest dream content is the result of a process of censorship: as a form of self-to-self communication, the dream is the symbolic arena most completely freed from all forms of censorship. In Lahire's view, the dream is a message which can be understood only by relating it to the social world of the dreamer, and in particular to the problems that concern him or her during waking life. As a form of self-to-self communication, the dream is an intimate private diary, providing us with the elements of a profound and subtle understanding of who and what we are. Studying dreams enables us to discover our most deep-seated and hidden preoccupations, and to understand the thought processes that operate within us, beyond the reach of our volition.

The study of dreams and dreaming has largely been the preserve of psychoanalysis, psychology and neuroscience. By showing how dreams are connected to the lived experience of individuals in the social world, this highly original book puts dreams and dreaming at the heart of the social sciences. It will be of great value to students and scholars in sociology, psychology and psychoanalysis and to anyone interested in the nature and meaning of dreams.
Über den Autor
Bernard Lahire is Professor of Sociology at the École Normale Superieure de Lyon. He has published over twenty books, including This is Not a Painting and The Plural Actor.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: A dream for the social sciences
1. Advances in the science of dreams
The dream before Freud
The need for an integrative theory

Scientific progress and relativism

The art of limping: the end of pure speculation

On the scientific interpretation of dreams

Beyond Freud

2. The dream: an intrinsically social individual reality
Can the social be absorbed into the cerebral?

A few precedents in the social sciences

Limitations of environmentalist approaches: the ecology of dreams

Limitations of literal approaches: content analysis of dream accounts

In what sense are dreams a social issue?

A general formula for the interpretation of dreams

3. Psychoanalysis and the social sciences
Between biological and social

Psychoanalysis and the general formula for interpreting practices

Infantile hypothesis

Sexual hypothesis

The highs and lows of the dream: sexuality and domination

4. Incorporated past and the unconscious
Ways in which the incorporated past is actualized

The statistician brain or practical anticipation

The internalization of the regularities of experience

Oneiric schemas and the incorporated past

A critique of the event-focused approach

5. Unconscious and involuntary consciousness
The involuntary consciousness of the dreamer

Unconsciousness or involuntary consciousness

The unconscious without repression

6. Formal censorship, moral censorship: the double relaxation

The most private of the private: on stage and behind the scenes

All dreams are not the fulfillment of an unsatisfied wish
7. The existential situation and dreams
Dream and outside the dream

The driving force of emotions

The therapeutic and political effects of making problems explicit
8. Triggering events
The day residue: theoretical and methodological inaccuracies

The day residue: the inertia of habit

The deferred effects of triggering events

Nocturnal perceptions and sensations

9. The context of sleep
Cerebral and psychic constraints

Withdrawing from the flow of interactions

Self-to-self communication: internal language, formal and implicit relaxation

10. The fundamental forms of psychic life
Practical analogy

Analogy in dreams

Transference in analysis as analogical transference

Association: analogy and contiguity

11. The oneiric processes
Verbal language, symbolic capacity and dream images
Visualization

Dramatization-exaggeration

Personal or universal symbolization

Metaphor

Condensation

Inversions, opposites, contradictions
12. Variations in forms of expression
An expressive continuum

Forms of expression, forms of psychic activity and types of social context

The false 'free expression' of dreams and the varying levels of contextual constraints

The dream between assimilation and accommodation

The dream, as opposed to literature

Play and the dream

Dreams and daydreams

Psychoanalytic therapy: recreating the conditions of the dream

13. Elements of methodology for a sociology of dreams
The fleeting nature of dreams and dream accounts

Do we need to know the dreamers to understand their dreams?

Access to the non-dream state: associations

Beyond associations

Access to the non-dream state: the sociological biography

Clarifications, associations, partial or systematic biographical accounts

Conclusion 1. A dream without any function
Conclusion 2. Dreams, will and freedom
Coda. The formula for interpreting practices - implications and challenges

Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Psychoanalyse
Genre: Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 450
Inhalt: 450 S.
ISBN-13: 9781509537945
ISBN-10: 1509537945
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 1A509537940
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Lahire, Bernard
Übersetzung: Morrison, Helen
Hersteller: Polity Press
Maße: 236 x 159 x 40 mm
Von/Mit: Bernard Lahire
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2020
Gewicht: 0,759 kg
preigu-id: 117971927
Über den Autor
Bernard Lahire is Professor of Sociology at the École Normale Superieure de Lyon. He has published over twenty books, including This is Not a Painting and The Plural Actor.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: A dream for the social sciences
1. Advances in the science of dreams
The dream before Freud
The need for an integrative theory

Scientific progress and relativism

The art of limping: the end of pure speculation

On the scientific interpretation of dreams

Beyond Freud

2. The dream: an intrinsically social individual reality
Can the social be absorbed into the cerebral?

A few precedents in the social sciences

Limitations of environmentalist approaches: the ecology of dreams

Limitations of literal approaches: content analysis of dream accounts

In what sense are dreams a social issue?

A general formula for the interpretation of dreams

3. Psychoanalysis and the social sciences
Between biological and social

Psychoanalysis and the general formula for interpreting practices

Infantile hypothesis

Sexual hypothesis

The highs and lows of the dream: sexuality and domination

4. Incorporated past and the unconscious
Ways in which the incorporated past is actualized

The statistician brain or practical anticipation

The internalization of the regularities of experience

Oneiric schemas and the incorporated past

A critique of the event-focused approach

5. Unconscious and involuntary consciousness
The involuntary consciousness of the dreamer

Unconsciousness or involuntary consciousness

The unconscious without repression

6. Formal censorship, moral censorship: the double relaxation

The most private of the private: on stage and behind the scenes

All dreams are not the fulfillment of an unsatisfied wish
7. The existential situation and dreams
Dream and outside the dream

The driving force of emotions

The therapeutic and political effects of making problems explicit
8. Triggering events
The day residue: theoretical and methodological inaccuracies

The day residue: the inertia of habit

The deferred effects of triggering events

Nocturnal perceptions and sensations

9. The context of sleep
Cerebral and psychic constraints

Withdrawing from the flow of interactions

Self-to-self communication: internal language, formal and implicit relaxation

10. The fundamental forms of psychic life
Practical analogy

Analogy in dreams

Transference in analysis as analogical transference

Association: analogy and contiguity

11. The oneiric processes
Verbal language, symbolic capacity and dream images
Visualization

Dramatization-exaggeration

Personal or universal symbolization

Metaphor

Condensation

Inversions, opposites, contradictions
12. Variations in forms of expression
An expressive continuum

Forms of expression, forms of psychic activity and types of social context

The false 'free expression' of dreams and the varying levels of contextual constraints

The dream between assimilation and accommodation

The dream, as opposed to literature

Play and the dream

Dreams and daydreams

Psychoanalytic therapy: recreating the conditions of the dream

13. Elements of methodology for a sociology of dreams
The fleeting nature of dreams and dream accounts

Do we need to know the dreamers to understand their dreams?

Access to the non-dream state: associations

Beyond associations

Access to the non-dream state: the sociological biography

Clarifications, associations, partial or systematic biographical accounts

Conclusion 1. A dream without any function
Conclusion 2. Dreams, will and freedom
Coda. The formula for interpreting practices - implications and challenges

Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Psychoanalyse
Genre: Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 450
Inhalt: 450 S.
ISBN-13: 9781509537945
ISBN-10: 1509537945
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 1A509537940
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Lahire, Bernard
Übersetzung: Morrison, Helen
Hersteller: Polity Press
Maße: 236 x 159 x 40 mm
Von/Mit: Bernard Lahire
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2020
Gewicht: 0,759 kg
preigu-id: 117971927
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