The ‘mad scientists’

Psychoanalysis, dream and virtual reality

Bibliographic Data

ID8971786
AuthorsMarie Leclaire (>5034 Clark, Montreal, Quebec H2T 2T8, Canada ‐, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume84
Issue2
Pages331-346
Publication date2003-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1516/b2we-ed8d-j556-rx73
PMID12856355
OpenAlexW2063058988
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited2

The author explores the concept of reality-testing as a means of assessing the relationship with reality that prevails in dream and in virtual reality. Based on a model developed by Jean Laplanche, she compares these activities in detail in order to determine their respective independence from the function of reality-testing. By carefully examining the concept of hallucination in the writings of Freud and Daniel Dennett, the author seeks to pinpoint the specific modalities of interaction between perceptions, ideas, wishes and actions that converge in the 'belief' and in the 'sense of reality'. The paper's main thesis consists of the distinction that it draws between immediacy-testing and reality-testing, with the further argument that this distinction not only dissipates the conceptual vagueness that generally surrounds the latter of the two concepts but also that it promotes a more precise analysis of the function of reality in dream and in virtual reality

Argument (complex analysis · Cognition · Consensus reality · Dream · Epistemology · Function (biology · Human–computer interaction · Immediacy · Perception · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Reality testing · Simulated reality · Vagueness · Virtual reality · Artificial Intelligence · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology

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