The Theatre of the Dream is a profound study of our dream world and
its place in everyday life. The author grounds his ideas in Freud
and psychoanalysis authors such as Klein, Bion, Rosenfeld and Matte
Blanco, but also draws on the approach to dream phenomena in the
work of philosophers, artists and poets. He argues that dreams are
indeed, as the ancients held, messages. The dream is a theatrical
re-recreation of certain unconscious experiences, which are both
subjective and objective at the same time. It expresses not only
desire but a complex working over of a problematic situation that
is not quite resolved. In waking the dream is a new elaboration of
everyday experience and one which creates the seeds of oracular
awareness. Resnik develops his thesis with ample and enlightening
examples of dreams and their significance from his own patients.
The author's achievement is a new psychoanalytic reading of dreams
one which does justice to Freud's momentous discovery but which
broadens it and places it within the wider context of subsequent
developments in psychoanalysis, semiotics and social and cultural
anthropology. The book will be of great value to the professional
psychotherapist or psychoanalyst as well as to students of
literature, the arts and linguistics and the wider public
interested in the ongoing relationship between dream reality and
what is commonly called external reality. As has been remarked,
each era can be defined on the basis of relations between dream and
life.
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