The Sociological Interpretation of Dreams by Bernard Lahire [Hardback]

Description: Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: A dream for the social sciences 1. Advances in the science of dreams The dream before Freud The need for an integrative theory Scientific progress and relativism The art of limping: the end of pure speculation On the scientific interpretation of dreams Beyond Freud 2. The dream: an intrinsically social individual reality Can the social be absorbed into the cerebral? A few precedents in the social sciences Limitations of environmentalist approaches: the ecology of dreams Limitations of literal approaches: content analysis of dream accounts In what sense are dreams a social issue? A general formula for the interpretation of dreams 3. Psychoanalysis and the social sciences Between biological and social Psychoanalysis and the general formula for interpreting practices Infantile hypothesis Sexual hypothesis The highs and lows of the dream: sexuality and domination 4. Incorporated past and the unconscious Ways in which the incorporated past is actualized The statistician brain or practical anticipation The internalization of the regularities of experience Oneiric schemas and the incorporated past A critique of the event-focused approach 5. Unconscious and involuntary consciousness The involuntary consciousness of the dreamer Unconsciousness or involuntary consciousness The unconscious without repression 6. Formal censorship, moral censorship: the double relaxation The most private of the private: on stage and behind the scenes All dreams are not the fulfillment of an unsatisfied wish 7. The existential situation and dreams Dream and outside the dream The driving force of emotions The therapeutic and political effects of making problems explicit 8. Triggering events The day residue: theoretical and methodological inaccuracies The day residue: the inertia of habit The deferred effects of triggering events Nocturnal perceptions and sensations 9. The context of sleep Cerebral and psychic constraints Withdrawing from the flow of interactions Self-to-self communication: internal language, formal and implicit relaxation 10. The fundamental forms of psychic life Practical analogy Analogy in dreams Transference in analysis as analogical transference Association: analogy and contiguity 11. The oneiric processes Verbal language, symbolic capacity and dream images Visualization Dramatization-exaggeration Personal or universal symbolization Metaphor Condensation Inversions, opposites, contradictions 12. Variations in forms of expression An expressive continuum Forms of expression, forms of psychic activity and types of social context The false 'free expression' of dreams and the varying levels of contextual constraints The dream between assimilation and accommodation The dream, as opposed to literature Play and the dream Dreams and daydreams Psychoanalytic therapy: recreating the conditions of the dream 13. Elements of methodology for a sociology of dreams The fleeting nature of dreams and dream accounts Do we need to know the dreamers to understand their dreams? Access to the non-dream state: associations Beyond associations Access to the non-dream state: the sociological biography Clarifications, associations, partial or systematic biographical accounts Conclusion 1. A dream without any function Conclusion 2. Dreams, will and freedom Coda. The formula for interpreting practices - implications and challenges Bibliography Index

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