The Rhetoric of Dreams /
States, Bert O.
The Rhetoric of Dreams / Bert O. States. - 1 online resource (240 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. THE DREAM WORLD -- PART TWO. THE DREAM WORK -- Index
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In this lively and provocative book, Bert O. States offers a new theory of the nature and function of dreaming, in the process challenging the Freudian theory of repression. The Rhetoric of Dreams asserts that the dream operates quite differently from the mechanism of repression as it is envisioned by most psychoanalysts. Far from censoring unacceptable thought, States says, the dream is one of the most direct of psychic functions, processing experience in patterns of association that contribute to our survival in waking reality. He thus regards the dream as a means by which the mind "thinks" images out of feelings and attitudes and then converts those images into other images along the path of the dream narrative.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501746307
10.7591/9781501746307 doi
Literary Studies.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric.
154.6/3
The Rhetoric of Dreams / Bert O. States. - 1 online resource (240 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. THE DREAM WORLD -- PART TWO. THE DREAM WORK -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In this lively and provocative book, Bert O. States offers a new theory of the nature and function of dreaming, in the process challenging the Freudian theory of repression. The Rhetoric of Dreams asserts that the dream operates quite differently from the mechanism of repression as it is envisioned by most psychoanalysts. Far from censoring unacceptable thought, States says, the dream is one of the most direct of psychic functions, processing experience in patterns of association that contribute to our survival in waking reality. He thus regards the dream as a means by which the mind "thinks" images out of feelings and attitudes and then converts those images into other images along the path of the dream narrative.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501746307
10.7591/9781501746307 doi
Literary Studies.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric.
154.6/3