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The Psychoanalytic Study of Dreams
February 21, 2020 @ 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm, Freud Classroom
Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2019-20, 2nd Trimester — Fridays, 1:45-3:15pm
Ronald Furedy, MD
Julie Wood, MA
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February 21, 2020
[24 pages]
Brenner, C. (1982). The Mind in Conflict, International Universities Press, pp180-193.
Brenner applies the concept of conflict theory to dreams with particular emphasis on the defense mechanisms used to attenuate painful affects: anxiety, guilt, shame, and depression. The dream is a compromise formation.
Segal, H. (1983). “The function of dreams” in Essential Papers on Dreams, Lansky, M. (Ed.) New York University Press, pp239-248.
Hana Segal organizes her understanding and interpretations of dreams and interpretation around the action between self and object representations. Affect combined with the use of projection and projective identification results in the splitting of the representation of the object. The ego may identify with this part-object representation. Symbols may be experienced as a “thing” and not symbolic (concrete thinking).
