Conflict and Dream

W H R Rivers

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781136344442
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Health Care Delivery

This is Volume XXV of twenty-eight in a collection on Psychoanalysis. Originally published in 1932, the aim of this book is to give a sane interpretation of the significance of dreams based upon a thorough investigation of the incidents of each dream recorded and of the circumstances under which it occurred. Dr Rivers especially calls attention ( a ) to the inadequacy of Freud's theory of wish-fulfilment as an explanation of dreams; ( b ) to the exaggerated importance assigned by the psycho-analytic school to incidents in the dreamer's early life to the neglect of recent conflicts, which he regards as more important as causal agents; and ( c ) especially to the fallacies of Freudian interpretations of symbolism, and particularly of sexual motives and symbols, which have been responsible for most of the opposition to Freud's teaching.

INDEX

Abraham, K., 88, 145

Affect in the dream, 65–81

Affective states determining dreams, 121

“Almeira,” 86

Amundsen, 163

“Angel of Peace” as symbol of death, 27, 39

Animal's dreams, 184

Antarctic dreams, 161–164

Anxieties of hospital work, 120–121

Anxiety-neurosis, 28

Awaking, process of, 8

Barbusse's Sur le Feu, 168

Bartlett, F. C, vii

Battle-dream, 73

Bethlem Hospital, 43

Billiards, see “cup and saucer” dream, 41–52, 75

Biological functions of dream, 181–188

“Botanical” dream of Freud's, 113

Briand, M., 119, 120

British Journal of Psychology, 53, 65

British Medical Journal, 14

Bryce, Dr W. H., ix

Caduceus, 33

Cambridge and youthful mentality, 87

Cambridge garden, 9, 16

Cambridge Magazine, 120, 122, 123, 124, 125, 175

Captain, rank as, 86

Censorship, 5, 90

Chambers, Eric G., vii

Children's dreams, 160

Coca, Freud's work on, 114

Cocaine, discovery of anaesthetic properties, 114, 115

Collective unconscious, 179

Comparison with Freud's views, 104–116

Complexes, 144

Condensation, 19

Conflict as to attitude towards the war, 124

Conflict in relation to wish-Fulfilment, 163

Constructive function of the dream, 128

Content of dreams, manifest and latent, 3, 96–116

Corset, as a symbol, 26, 29

Council of Royal Anthropological Institute, 10, 16

Craig, Sir Maurice, 41–46

Craiglockhart Hospital, 43, 118

“Cup and saucer” dream, 40–52, 75, 112

Day-dreams, 80

Diffusion of symbolism, 179

Disguise, 3...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• I. Freud's Theory of Dreams
• II. The Dream-Work
• III. The “Cup and Saucer” Dream
• IV. Methods of Dream-Analysis
• V. Affect in the Dream
• VI. “London Lectures” Dreams
• VII. The Content of Dreams
• VIII. The “Reproachful Letter” Dream
• IX. Dream and Psycho-Neurosis
• X. Symbolism in Dreams
• Appendix I: The Biological Function of the Dream
• Appendix II: The Interpretation of Myths
• Index