Psychoanalysis, Sleep and Dreams (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Tridon, André

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330109686 ISBN 13 : 9781330109687

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Discover how our dreams reveal the hidden workings of the mind. This book explores sleep and dreams through a clear, scientific lens, proposing that dream study helps explain both sleep and unconscious cravings. It argues that accepting biological facts about ourselves can reduce fear and confusion, while offering practical paths to better rest.

From the Preface to chapters on dream life and interpretation, the work links dream content to waking thoughts, showing how nightmares, wish fulfillment, and symbolic imagery reflect our inner world. The author emphasizes careful, bias-free study and practical techniques to recount, analyze, and understand dreams without sensationalism.

- Learn how sleep functions as a normal, life-sustaining process and how dreams arise from unconscious cravings.
- Understand common dream themes, such as nakedness, falling, or teeth, and what they might signify about hidden desires.
- Explore methods for recalling dreams, interpreting their meaning, and using that insight to ease sleeplessness and anxiety.
- See how sleepwalking and other dream-related phenomena fit into a broader view of the dream life.

Ideal for readers curious about the science of sleep, dreams, and their impact on daily life, as well as anyone seeking practical methods to improve rest and reduce nocturnal fears.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

St. Augustine was glad that God did not hold him responsible for his dreams. From which we may infer that his dreams must have been human, all too human and that he experienced a certain feeling of guilt on account of their nature. His attitude is one assumed by many people, laymen and scientists, some of them concealing it under a general scepticism as to dream interpretation. Few people are willing to concede as Nietszche did, that nothing is more genuinely ourselves than our dreams. This is why the psychoanalytic pronouncement that dreams are the fulfilment of wishes meets with so much hostility. The man who has a dream of gross sex or ego gratification dislikes to have others think that the desire for such gross pleasure is a part of his personality.
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Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

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This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. It was produced from digital images created through the libraries’ mass digitization efforts. The digital images were cleaned and prepared for printing through automated processes. Despite the cleaning process, occasional flaws may still be present that were part of the original work itself, or introduced during digitization. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found online in the HathiTrust Digital Library at www.hathitrust.org.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330109686
• ISBN 13: 9781330109687
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 177
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