This chapter considers a dream reported by Sigmund Freud in the 12th Lecture of his Introduction, entitled “Some analyses of sample dreams”. The dreamer was a neurotic subject. The analysis carried out by Freud is mainly focused on the search for the dream sources. The development of the manifest dream gives the dreamer the possibility of testing what the consequences of his madness are: good...
DreamingJune 1, 2010Umberto Barcaro, Pietro Rizzi4 citations
The objective of the research was to recognize and describe a phenomenon of self-similarity in dreams, specifically in the connection patterns of dreams: These patterns were obtained by means of a linguistic analysis of data including dream reports and associations provided by the dreamer. Dreams of four patients in therapy, three for each patient, were considered. It was found that a...