La signification occulte des rêves : Freud pourfendeur ou pourvoyeur de mythes ?
Bulletin de psychologie November 24, 2017 Renaud Évrard, Thomas Rabeyron 5 citations
Sigmund Freud initially worked to distinguish psychoanalysis from occultism, explaining so-called prophetic dreams through unconscious processes. His attitude toward occultism gradually evolved, with a growing interest in a 'kernel of truth' he linked to telepathy. In 1925, he replicated an experiment by Gilbert Murray with his daughter Anna and Sandor Ferenczi, combining telepathy and free association, which convinced him of telepathy's reality. He shared this conviction in 'The Occult Significance of Dreams,' a supplementary text to his Interpretation of Dreams. Ernest Jones's reluctance to associate psychoanalysis with telepathy contributed to the subsequent marginalization of this interest. The authors aim to restore the context of this rarely commented text and identify its extensions in experimental research on telepathic dreams.