The Meaning Of Dreams | by Isador H. Coriat
The new psychology of dreams, as elaborated by Freud, represents one of the greatest advances ever made in our knowledge of the human mind and of human motives. For abnormal psychology, dream-analysis can be compared only in importance with the discovery of the origin of species and of the factors of organic evolution in the field of biology. The analysis of dreams is not only of great theoretical value in the understanding of the unconscious but has its practical side as well, in giving medicine the most potent instrument which it has ever possessed in the treatment of certain functional nervous disturbances.
| Title | The Meaning Of Dreams |
| Author | Isador H. Coriat |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, And Company |
| Year | 1916 |
| Copyright | 1916, Little, Brown, And Company |
| Amazon | The Meaning Of Dreams |
By Isador H. Coriat, M.D., First Assistant Visiting Physician For Disease Of The Nervous System, Boston City Hospital. Instructor In Neurololgy, Tufis College Medical School
"Dragons are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but great is required to tori and understand them."
To E.D.C.
Mind And Health Series
Edited by H. Addington Bruce, A.M.
Editorial Introduction- In accordance with the purpose of this series to extend knowledge of the important discoveries affecting individual and social welfare that have been made during recent years through psychological inv...
- Preface
- The new psychology of dreams, as elaborated by Freud, represents one of the greatest advances ever made in our knowledge of the human mind and of human motives. For abnormal psychology, dream-analysis...
- Chapter I. The Problem Of Dreams
- EVERYBODY dreams, and every dream means something, no matter how fragmentary and ridiculous it may appear. It may be symbolic of something deep-seated in the personality of the dreamer, or it may indi...
- Chapter II. An Example Of Dream-Analysis
- IT is best to take as a starting point in explaining dream-analysis the interpretation of an ordinary dream, thus paving the way for a clearer understanding of the psychology of dreams and the various...
- The Dream
- My friend seemed to be in the dining-room at the home of Doctor and Mrs. X. From the room the entrance-hall could be seen. Mrs. X. was there and looked perfectly natural, while Doctor X. appeared to b...
- The Analysis
- Doctor X. was an old school and college friend of the subject and on taking his degree had specialized in surgery, while the subject had specialized in internal medicine. The subject had known Mrs. X....
- The Analysis. Continued
- The three appeared to be talking earnestly and intimately. A wish to retain friendship, so that this easy and intimate conversation might be continued, with the good times incident on friendship and ...
- Chapter III. Dreams As The Fulfillment Of Wishes
- THE dream stands in the center of the psycho-analytic theory and gives us the best insight into normal and abnormal mental structures. Dream-analysis furnishes the physician the most direct means of u...
- Dreams As The Fulfillment Of Wishes. Continued
- Now, a wish or conflict between wishes may not only cause an hysterical disturbance but likewise may show itself in the dreams of the individual who suffers from hysteria. For instance, a young woman ...
- Chapter IV. Dreams And The Unconscious
- BEFORE the various dream mechanisms are discussed in detail, it will be necessary to give a brief outline of the psycho-analytic conception of the unconscious mental life, as this enters so largely in...
- Chapter V. The Mechanism Of Dreams
- AFTER having analyzed the dream given in the second chapter and shown how an apparently meaningless jumble can be reduced to law and order, we are now prepared to discuss the various dream mechanisms ...
- The Mechanism Of Dreams. Part 2
- The construction of the manifest content out of the multiple dream thoughts is due to the process of what is termed the work of the dream or the dream making. Because most dreams are visual pictures, ...
- The Mechanism Of Dreams. Part 3
- I am not referring here to the frank sexual dreams which nearly every one has experienced, but to the more highly disguised and symbolized type of dreams briefly referred to above. The erotic desire m...
- The Mechanism Of Dreams. Part 4
- Since the purpose of the censor is to prevent certain registered memories from becoming conscious, it follows that in the number dream analyzed this censor was at work as a kind of unconscious resista...
- Chapter VI. The Function Of Dreams
- SINCE everybody dreams, and since sleep is necessary for the needed repair of our physical energies, a point of great practical importance concerns itself with the question: What is the use of dreams?...
- Chapter VII. Dreams Of Children And Of Primitive Races
- IT has been shown in a previous chapter that a dream is a realization or fulfillment of repressed desires or wishes. In adults, this wish is concealed or symbolized in the manifest content of the drea...
- Dreams Of Children And Of Primitive Races. Continued
- 1 Interpretation of Dreams, p. 489. Dream 1. Her brother seemed to be taken away from her to a cave where she also saw her mother dying, and then she seemed to go to another house where she was ver...
- Chapter VIII. Typical Dreams
- THE analysis and correct interpretation of a dream presupposes a certain degree of knowledge and technical skill. A dream cannot be interpreted, however, unless the dreamer conscientiously and without...
- Typical Dreams. Part 2
- This typical dream makes up the OEdipus-motive of childhood; every child which has such wishes is in reality a little OEdipus. With the advance of adult culture and of the ethical and moral interpret...
- Typical Dreams. Part 3
- 1 Given verbatim as written by the dreamer. Suddenly I bethought me of the power I had to rise in the air at will. I concentrated all my thoughts upon escaping in that way. As I went up and up, I lo...
- Chapter IX. Prophetic Dreams
- IN the astronomical sciences, the future may often be accurately prophesied; for instance, the movements of the stars, the return of comets after their vast journeys through space, the coming of eclip...
- Chapter X. Artificial Dreams
- BY an artificial dream is meant a dream which a person consciously makes up when requested to fabricate what he would consider to be a genuine dream. When these artificial dreams are analyzed, they wi...
- Chapter XI. Dreams And Nervous Diseases
- THE dream is not only of theoretical interest in elucidating certain problems of abnormal psychology and of the unconscious in particular, but it stands in the center of the psycho-analytic treatment ...
- Dreams And Nervous Diseases. Part 2
- This double vision appeared almost immediately after an emotional shock, when she found that her husband had been unfaithful to her. It immediately flashed across her mind that her husband was leading...
- Dreams And Nervous Diseases. Part 3
- Dream VII She was visiting B. with her father and was riding through the subway. Dream VlII. She was in school, happy, studying her lessons, and with all her schoolmates. In analyzing this series of...
- Dreams And Nervous Diseases. Part 4
- Thus this little girl's hysteria resulted from a struggle between her conscious feelings and her unconscious wishes, with the result that the latter gained the upper hand, leading to the hysterical bl...
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