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Dreams, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis - Mind, Body, and the Question of Time (Hardcover)
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Dreams, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis - Mind, Body, and the Question of Time (Hardcover)
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Dreams, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis sets out to give a
scientific consistency to the question of time and find out how
time determines brain functioning. Neurological investigations into
dreams and sleep since the mid-20th century have challenged our
scientific conception of living beings. On this basis, Keramat
Movallali reviews the foundations of modern neurophysiology in the
light of other trends in this field that have been neglected by the
cognitive sciences, trends that seem to be increasingly confirmed
by recent research. The author begins by giving a historical view
of fundamental questions such as the nature of the living being
according to discoveries in ethology as well as in other research,
especially that which is based on the theory of the reflex. It
becomes clear in the process that these findings are consistent
with the question of time as it has been considered in some major
contemporary philosophies. This is then extended to the domain of
dreams and sleep, as phenomena that are said to be elucidated by
the question of time. The question is then raised: can dreaming be
considered as a drive? Based on the Freudian discovery of the
unconscious and Lacan's teachings, Movallali seeks to provide a
better understanding of the drives in general and dreams in
particular. He explores neuroscience in terms of its development as
well as its discoveries in the function of dreaming as an altered
mode of consciousness. The challenge of confronting psychoanalysis
with neuroscience forces us to go beyond their division and
opposition. Psychoanalysis cannot overlook what has now become a
worldwide scientific approach. Neuroscience, just like the
cognitive sciences, will be further advanced by acknowledging the
desiring dimension of humanity, which is at the very heart of its
being as essentially related to the question of time. It is
precisely this dimension that is at the core of psychoanalytic
practice. Dreams, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis will appeal to
psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as
neuroscientists, psychologists, ethologists, philosophers and
advanced students studying across these fields.
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