TY  - BOOK
AU  - States,Bert O.
TI  - The Rhetoric of Dreams
SN  - 9781501746307
U1  - 154.6/3 
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; PART ONE. THE DREAM WORLD --; PART TWO. THE DREAM WORK --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501746307
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501746307
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501746307/original
ER  -