Necessary Dream - New Theories and Techniques of Interpretation in Psychoanalysis

After a hundred years of psychoanalysis, what has the psychoanalytic interpretation of dreams now become? Are what Simic calls "the films of our lives" still the royal road to the unconscious or do we now have a different concept both of dreams and of the unconscious? These are just some of the questions that this book seeks to answer.

List of contents

ABOUT THE AUTHORINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER ONE Dark contemplationCHAPTER TWO Dream fictionsCHAPTER THREE The Cell and the cruel/painful world of Carl StargherCHAPTER FOUR The inability to dream in They and Dark CityCHAPTER FIVE The dream as an aesthetic objectCHAPTER SIX Losing your mind, finding your mindCHAPTER SEVEN Reverie, or how to capture a killer (-content)CHAPTER EIGHT Dreams of dreamsCHAPTER NINE Are dreams still the guardians of sleep?FILMOGRAPHYREFERENCESINDEX

About the author

Giuseppe Civitarese is a psychiatrist and training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI) and a member of the of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He lives and is in private practice in Pavia, Italy. He is the editor of the 'Rivista di Psicoanalisi', the official journal of the SPI.

Summary

After a hundred years of psychoanalysis, what has the psychoanalytic interpretation of dreams now become? Are what Simic calls "the films of our lives" still the royal road to the unconscious or do we now have a different concept both of dreams and of the unconscious?  These are just some of the questions that this book seeks to answer.

Product details

• Authors: Giuseppe Civitarese, Civitarese Giuseppe
• Assisted by: Ian Harvey (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367102326
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10232-6
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)