I May Allow Myself to do This”

Conflict in Freud’s Writing of The Interpretation of Dreams

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ID8333330
AuthorsSarah Ackerman (0000-0002-6833-2402, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume67
Issue5
Pages767-788
Publication date2019-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0003065119883616
PMID31850787
OpenAlexW2995377887
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited9

An autobiographical interpretation of latent meanings in Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams is undertaken in order to explore oedipal themes in Freud’s writing and their role in his resistance to writing the book. By looking at how the book performs its message, in presenting a collection of Freud’s personal dreams that talk to each other and inspire meaning-making, we can see how readers are drawn into the role of interpreters/analysts. This process makes the oedipal myth palpable long before Freud mentions it. It also illustrates an analytic process that analysts are all required to follow. Finally, the process reveals something in Freud that could be apprehended only after his ideas were conveyed—the unending process of interpretation, in which every conclusion gives rise to new ideas, inspiring new conclusions

Art · Epistemology · Id, ego and super-ego · Interpretation (philosophy) · Interpreter · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Mythology · Order (exchange) · Process (computing) · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Reflexive pronoun · Resistance (ecology) · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Social Critique · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

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