Wolfgang Giegerich

Working With Dreams

Initiation into the Soul's Speaking About Itself

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is about the practice of working with dreams. Rather than presenting a general theory about dreams, it focuses on the dream as phenomenon and raises the question how we must look at dreams if our approach is supposed to be a truly psychological one.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9780367525132
• ISBN-10: 0367525135
• Artikelnr.: 60022442

Autorenporträt

Wolfgang Giegerich is a Jungian psychoanalyst, now living in Berlin, and an author of numerous books, among them What Is Soul? and Neurosis: The Logic of a Metaphysical Illness. His most recent works are The Historical Emergence of the I and What Are the Factors That Heal?

Inhaltsangabe

I. What is a dream?
The dream as a conscious phenomenon. The dream as text
Ontological rupture
The dream as interpretation
"Ontology" of the dream-internal world
1. The seeing of a dream.
2. Mutability and malleability.
3. Shadowiness.
4. Lacunality.
5. 'Just in time' apparition, not substantial being.
6. Concepts cloaked in sensible shapes.
II. Why Dreams?
The significance of dreams in therapy
a) The soul's speaking.
b) "I do not know the answer either."
c) Dreams versus sandplay and painting.
d) Listening to patients' stories as if they were dreams?
When patients don't dream
III. The proper attitude towards the dream
Crossing the river. The standpoint of soul
The three stances to "crossing the river" and the three forms of otherness
Psychotherapy-the making of psychology
The dream as corpse.
Not knowing as methodological starting point
The necessity of my going under
IV. The dream interpreter
Whom does the therapist address when working on dreams with a patient?
Who in the therapist interprets the dream?
My interpretation.
The Now of dream interpretation
V. Interpreting the actual text of dreams
"Object level", "subject level" and the objective psyche
Trap: Dream interpretation as the dream's translation into the terms of
one's psychological theory
Getting started: Beginning with the subject. Circumambulating the dream
Turning to the "object": The dream as subject and self
Inner infinity and the wildness of the living image
Actually working with dreams
Discerning the proper horizon of and context for individual dream elements
Narcissistic blow: "It has a say now, not you!" Or: The patient as obstacle
The dream-I
The dream-I and the Other
1. Necessary distinctions and decisions.
2. The antagonists.
3. The soul's via negativa.
4. How to view the ego defenses in dreams.
5. Opposition as obvious conflict between Two and the dialectic of
successful flight.
6. Opposition as the dream-I's malgré lui doing the other's bidding.
Information Classification: General
7. Opposition as antithetical meaning of one and the same.
8. Opposition as impugning the known truth.
Psychic and biological processes in dreams
Semantic content versus syntactic structure
VI. By way of one example: A dream and its psychological interpretation
VII. The dream and the patient
The therapy situation as impairment of dream interpretation.
Absolute-negative interiorization of the patient into the dream
"So the dream shows me that. And now?"
Terrible dream images, unbearable for the patient?
VIII. Miscellaneous questions
The types and topics of dreams
Does the dream have a message for us?
Archetypal dream motifs. Numinous, religious dreams?
Whose dream is it?
"Big" dreams
The dream series
Excursus: Can one learn to interpret dreams?
IX. The ulterior purpose of and assignment for dream interpretation: From
Natura to Ars
X. Beyond working with dreams
Pushing off to the dimension of the soul's real life