The Sociological Interpretation of Dreams

ISBN-13: 9781509537945 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 450 str.

Bernard Lahire; Helen Morrison

Recenzje

?Drawing on many disciplines, on little-known works about dream activity and on discoveries about consciousness and the workings of thought, Bernard Lahire puts forward a bold theory: we replay at night the unconscious schemas and determinisms that structure our personality and underlie our behavior.?L'Obs?This great theoretical work, which opens up a whole host of questions about what troubles us day and night, about what social structures do to our unconscious and about what the world does to our nocturnal imagination, awaits only its practical application in order to corroborate its stimulating insights.?Les Inrocks"With insight and serious thought, Lahire builds a bridge between sociology and psychoanalysis. Across the bridge travel not only empirical and theoretical contributions to each field, but intellectual spurs to new creativity."Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University"Bernard Lahire has established himself as arguably the most creative and insightful French sociologist of his generation. A leading global social psychologist, Lahire reveals how dreams transcend the line between fantasy and daytime reality. This masterwork persuades us that that the chasm between sleep and waking is not as deep as easily imagined. Every sociologist will learn from Lahire and every psychologist should learn from him as well."Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University

Spis treści

Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: A dream for the social sciences1. Advances in the science of dreamsThe dream before FreudThe need for an integrative theoryScientific progress and relativismThe art of limping: the end of pure speculationOn the scientific interpretation of dreamsBeyond Freud2. The dream: an intrinsically social individual realityCan the social be absorbed into the cerebral?A few precedents in the social sciencesLimitations of environmentalist approaches: the ecology of dreamsLimitations of literal approaches: content analysis of dream accountsIn what sense are dreams a social issue?A general formula for the interpretation of dreams3. Psychoanalysis and the social sciencesBetween biological and socialPsychoanalysis and the general formula for interpreting practicesInfantile hypothesisSexual hypothesisThe highs and lows of the dream: sexuality and domination4. Incorporated past and the unconsciousWays in which the incorporated past is actualizedThe statistician brain or practical anticipationThe internalization of the regularities of experienceOneiric schemas and the incorporated pastA critique of the event-focused approach5. Unconscious and involuntary consciousnessThe involuntary consciousness of the dreamerUnconsciousness or involuntary consciousnessThe unconscious without repression6. Formal censorship, moral censorship: the double relaxationThe most private of the private: on stage and behind the scenesAll dreams are not the fulfillment of an unsatisfied wish7. The existential situation and dreamsDream and outside the dreamThe driving force of emotionsThe therapeutic and political effects of making problems explicit8. Triggering eventsThe day residue: theoretical and methodological inaccuraciesThe day residue: the inertia of habitThe deferred effects of triggering eventsNocturnal perceptions and sensations9. The context of sleepCerebral and psychic constraintsWithdrawing from the flow of interactionsSelf-to-self communication: internal language, formal and implicit relaxation10. The fundamental forms of psychic lifePractical analogyAnalogy in dreamsTransference in analysis as analogical transferenceAssociation: analogy and contiguity11. The oneiric processesVerbal language, symbolic capacity and dream imagesVisualizationDramatization-exaggerationPersonal or universal symbolizationMetaphorCondensationInversions, opposites, contradictions12. Variations in forms of expressionAn expressive continuumForms of expression, forms of psychic activity and types of social contextThe false 'free expression' of dreams and the varying levels of contextual constraintsThe dream between assimilation and accommodationThe dream, as opposed to literaturePlay and the dreamDreams and daydreamsPsychoanalytic therapy: recreating the conditions of the dream13. Elements of methodology for a sociology of dreamsThe fleeting nature of dreams and dream accountsDo we need to know the dreamers to understand their dreams?Access to the non-dream state: associationsBeyond associationsAccess to the non-dream state: the sociological biographyClarifications, associations, partial or systematic biographical accountsConclusion 1. A dream without any functionConclusion 2. Dreams, will and freedomCoda. The formula for interpreting practices - implications and challengesBibliographyIndex

O autorze

Bernard Lahire is Professor of Sociology at the École Normale Superieure de Lyon. He has published over twenty books, including This is Not a Painting and The Plural Actor.