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The Sociological Interpretation of Dreams (Hardcover)
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The Sociological Interpretation of Dreams (Hardcover)
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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.
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