| Dreams within dreams. | |
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PMID: 12723128 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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The concept of a dream within a dream is studied intensively. The illusion created by the dream work portrays one portion of a dream enacted within the envelope of another. Freud (1900) emphasized that the function of placing a piece of reality in a dream within a dream is an attempt to rob it of its significance and obliterate it. However, he seemed curiously disinterested in the fact that segmentation of a dream text into two seemingly discrete fragments does offer a dream investigator the opportunity to explore the dynamic relationship between the two fragments and the multiple meanings of the illusion created during sleep. In this study the linkage between the two parts of the dream sequence is highlighted. While Freud's intuition is corroborated, his lack of interest in the duality of the dream events is puzzling, as if he believed that only the dream within a dream is meaningful and the complementary and contextual dream sequence can be ignored. This paper suggests that both portions of the dream within a dream are significant, the one helping to explicate the other as the free-associative process of dream interpretation gives equal democratic time to both. |
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Authors:
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Eugene J Mahon |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: The Psychoanalytic study of the child Volume: 57 ISSN: 0079-7308 ISO Abbreviation: Psychoanal Study Child Publication Date: 2002 |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2003-05-01 Completed Date: 2003-05-23 Revised Date: 2004-11-17 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0376472 Medline TA: Psychoanal Study Child Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 118-30 Citation Subset: IM |
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Dreams* Freudian Theory Humans Psychoanalytic Interpretation |
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