1) summary of main arguments
2) something surprising or interesting learned
3) agree/disagree with the ideas and then apply this to a scene or example from the book (one not mentioned by the critic).
4) Please try to disagree at least once with a critic Okay . . . second summary . . . what are the repeated elements in the dreams that fit in wit Freud's theory of the universal key? You definitely discuss the ideas of the personal context which actually then really is you interpreting the text in a literary way without really needing to reference this article. So let's push the interpretation using the universal key. What does entering his house mean? What might house mean in the dream world? Do any of them show a particular object? A sheild or bat or other? What might that mean? Did they have to turn the doorknob? Was the door or the shape of the door mentioned? Push the interpretation further.
Summary 1: 10/10 Summary 2: 9/10 Please have a summary for next time that directly relates to the book. A Dream is the Fulfillment of a Wish
This article mainly discusses contradictory arguments of Freud’s interpretation of dreams and some modification he made, in addition to critic’s interpretation of dream.
In order for a wishful dream to exist, there should be a) a suppression or inhibition of an activity in a conscious state and b) a perpetuation of the intended behavior that was suppressed before. These two simple steps leads to corollary: every dream is the fulfillment of a wish.
Our mind will first be preoccupied, whether or not it is irrelevant to our diurnal life. Freud states that this association will eventually end up in the exact theme later on—for example, in a form of dream.
However, since dream—as Wittgenstein claims it as a mere hallucinated wish fulfillment—can never fulfill one’s wish, a contradiction comes in: people dream to fulfill their wishes but none is fulfilled. Also, Wittgenstein contends Freud by stating Freud’s theory of wishful dream does not apply to dreams derived from fear rather than longing.
Freud, thus, amends his theory: a dream is a (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed or repressed) wish. The amendment considers the manifest part and latent part of a dream. The latent part of a dream takes on to further discussion. The obvious part is that dream shows one’s wish. The underlying part of dream is that it is disguised. Dreams are often disguised with symbols that represent what a person wants.
Another consequence of disguised dream is a sense of guilt. A wish from unconscious conflicts that is disguised can conclude to a guilty dream.
It is obvious the manifest part of our dreams is wishful ones. The interesting part is that it is disguised with symbols and hallucinations. As matter of fact, we often dream about fancy events that obviously would not happen or should not happen in the real world. The sense of guilt also comes from here: the fact that our dream should not happen in the real world, even though they are our wishes is a genuine guilt.
An example from Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky clearly demonstrates this corollary. In part 1 Raskolnikov dreams about people beating up an old mare. And his father takes away him soon after. This dream, although seems like a irrelevant flashback, is instilled with disguised symbols that represents Raskolnikov’s subconscious wishes so explicitly. The old mare represents the pawn broker, and his father represents his superego. By ascribing what he wishes to do to other people in his dream, Raskolnikov obviously don’t want be guilty of what he plans to do in the future. Later in the story, Raskolnikov kills the pawn broker without getting caught, which his dream interprets as exactly.
However, the contradicting part of Freud’s interpretation of dreams comes in as well. Later, Raskolnikov gets sick and is bedridden. He has another dream of detectives coming in to the house and searching for evidence. Raskolnikov wakes up in a fear and desperately asks for his sock, which is merely blood-stained. This dream rather fits Wittgenstein’s description of dream as a hallucination than it does Freud’s theory.
pg#: 7~44 Dream Interpretation: Free Association or Universal Symbolism?
This article mainly talks about discrepancies in Freud’s interpretation of dream.
Freud, a psychoanalyst, studies random conflicts from subconscious. As a psychoanalyst, it is reasonable to contend that our dream consists of personal context in our subconscious.
However, Freud, after writing multiple versions of The Interpretation of Dreams, seeks for the universal key to the interpretation of dreams. Freud, in his most complete version of book, states that dream can be interpreted in a similar way since the symbols each object represent are habitually employed by many.
The author, however, tries to individualize the interpretation of dreams. The author disregards common dream-symbols that are derived from images and linguistic elements of objects in dream, and approaches person-centered interpretation. The author believes besides dreams that can be decoded by Freud’s universal key to symbolism, there are underlying difference across different context.
For instance, walking up the stair can be interpreted as copulation according to Freud’s universal symbol inventory. Rhythmic movement and many connotations from German and French can be used to support Freud’s insight. However, the author contends that the-climbing-up-the-stair-dream can also represent an effort to reach specific goal. The author further makes Freud’s theory contradictory by mentioning visual and linguistic aspect of the dream, the very way Freud used to come up with his interpretation. Each step of the staircase represents an obstacle that delays our advance. In addition, couple of French idiom clearly demonstrates that “stair” is used to symbolize hindrance in progress.
Such interpretation of dream utilizing personal context rather than universal patrimony can describe the second dream that Raskolnikov has. Obviously, Raskolnikov is worried about losing the evidences and having them in detectives’ hand. Although it never happens, such dream is a reasonable prediction of future.
Implementing differential interpretation of the dream, I can easily conclude that Raskolnikov’s dream about detectives coming into the house is a sudden strike of superego or his guilty conscience that tells him to confess his sin. Freud’s universal interpretation of dream would not have applied to this one since such dream is driven from Raskolnikov’s guilty conscience from murdering the pawn broker.
Bibliography: Pick, Daniel, and Lyndal Roper, eds. Dreams and History: The Interpretation of Dreams from Ancient Greece to Modern Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge, 2004. Questia. Web. 15 Feb. 2010.
page #: 179 - 199
summary:
1) summary of main arguments
2) something surprising or interesting learned
3) agree/disagree with the ideas and then apply this to a scene or example from the book (one not mentioned by the critic).
4) Please try to disagree at least once with a critic The dreambok in Russia -Views dreams aas a means of elucidating the future rather than unconscious -Stem from older European tradition -Assign a meaning to an object seen in the dream and then weave these symbols into an overall interpretation -Principles of opposite -Metonymy: saddle = journey or ink a letter -Perceived qualities or appearances: hare = fear, pancake = letter -Direct interpretation of a symbol (much more uncommon): dead relative = imminent death -Came as fortune-telling books -Separate symbols nAstrological type: zodiac sign: crawfish: of this you may be truly sure your lover now will step through the door nAlphabetical type: listed dream object into single interpretation -Drawbacks of zodiac interpretation: only so many dream objects can be squeezed into 12 symbols: demanded minimal knowledge in astrology -Books were means of enlightenment -Dream interpretation was traditionally a breakfast-time activity in Russia and Scandinavia -Romanticism came in and dream interpretation became more significant -But it declined to a mere entertainment as romanticism waned and the number of educated people waxed -As literacy and authority was focused on men, women took most part of the oral tradition of dream interpretation -Dreambook were no longer in usage of educated
page #: 3-28
summary:
1) summary of main arguments
2) something surprising or interesting learned
3) agree/disagree with the ideas and then apply this to a scene or example from the book (one not mentioned by the critic).
4) Please try to disagree at least once with a critic
Okay . . . second summary . . . what are the repeated elements in the dreams that fit in wit Freud's theory of the universal key? You definitely discuss the ideas of the personal context which actually then really is you interpreting the text in a literary way without really needing to reference this article. So let's push the interpretation using the universal key. What does entering his house mean? What might house mean in the dream world? Do any of them show a particular object? A sheild or bat or other? What might that mean? Did they have to turn the doorknob? Was the door or the shape of the door mentioned? Push the interpretation further.
Summary 1: 10/10 Summary 2: 9/10 Please have a summary for next time that directly relates to the book.
A Dream is the Fulfillment of a Wish
This article mainly discusses contradictory arguments of Freud’s interpretation of dreams and some modification he made, in addition to critic’s interpretation of dream.
In order for a wishful dream to exist, there should be a) a suppression or inhibition of an activity in a conscious state and b) a perpetuation of the intended behavior that was suppressed before. These two simple steps leads to corollary: every dream is the fulfillment of a wish.
Our mind will first be preoccupied, whether or not it is irrelevant to our diurnal life. Freud states that this association will eventually end up in the exact theme later on—for example, in a form of dream.
However, since dream—as Wittgenstein claims it as a mere hallucinated wish fulfillment—can never fulfill one’s wish, a contradiction comes in: people dream to fulfill their wishes but none is fulfilled. Also, Wittgenstein contends Freud by stating Freud’s theory of wishful dream does not apply to dreams derived from fear rather than longing.
Freud, thus, amends his theory: a dream is a (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed or repressed) wish. The amendment considers the manifest part and latent part of a dream. The latent part of a dream takes on to further discussion. The obvious part is that dream shows one’s wish. The underlying part of dream is that it is disguised. Dreams are often disguised with symbols that represent what a person wants.
Another consequence of disguised dream is a sense of guilt. A wish from unconscious conflicts that is disguised can conclude to a guilty dream.
It is obvious the manifest part of our dreams is wishful ones. The interesting part is that it is disguised with symbols and hallucinations. As matter of fact, we often dream about fancy events that obviously would not happen or should not happen in the real world. The sense of guilt also comes from here: the fact that our dream should not happen in the real world, even though they are our wishes is a genuine guilt.
An example from Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky clearly demonstrates this corollary. In part 1 Raskolnikov dreams about people beating up an old mare. And his father takes away him soon after. This dream, although seems like a irrelevant flashback, is instilled with disguised symbols that represents Raskolnikov’s subconscious wishes so explicitly. The old mare represents the pawn broker, and his father represents his superego. By ascribing what he wishes to do to other people in his dream, Raskolnikov obviously don’t want be guilty of what he plans to do in the future. Later in the story, Raskolnikov kills the pawn broker without getting caught, which his dream interprets as exactly.
However, the contradicting part of Freud’s interpretation of dreams comes in as well. Later, Raskolnikov gets sick and is bedridden. He has another dream of detectives coming in to the house and searching for evidence. Raskolnikov wakes up in a fear and desperately asks for his sock, which is merely blood-stained. This dream rather fits Wittgenstein’s description of dream as a hallucination than it does Freud’s theory.
Bib;
Rand, Nicholas Thomas, and Maria Torok. "Questions for Freud: the secret ... - Google Books." Google Books. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Feb. 2010. http://books.google.com/books?id=hQ5F5AJEx8UC&dq=questions+for+freud+the+secret+history+of+psychoanalysis+by+nicholas+rand+maria+torok&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=x0xnS7arGImssgPYxcWdAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CA4Q6AEwAw.
pg#: 7~44
Dream Interpretation: Free Association or Universal Symbolism?
This article mainly talks about discrepancies in Freud’s interpretation of dream.
Freud, a psychoanalyst, studies random conflicts from subconscious. As a psychoanalyst, it is reasonable to contend that our dream consists of personal context in our subconscious.
However, Freud, after writing multiple versions of The Interpretation of Dreams, seeks for the universal key to the interpretation of dreams. Freud, in his most complete version of book, states that dream can be interpreted in a similar way since the symbols each object represent are habitually employed by many.
The author, however, tries to individualize the interpretation of dreams. The author disregards common dream-symbols that are derived from images and linguistic elements of objects in dream, and approaches person-centered interpretation. The author believes besides dreams that can be decoded by Freud’s universal key to symbolism, there are underlying difference across different context.
For instance, walking up the stair can be interpreted as copulation according to Freud’s universal symbol inventory. Rhythmic movement and many connotations from German and French can be used to support Freud’s insight. However, the author contends that the-climbing-up-the-stair-dream can also represent an effort to reach specific goal. The author further makes Freud’s theory contradictory by mentioning visual and linguistic aspect of the dream, the very way Freud used to come up with his interpretation. Each step of the staircase represents an obstacle that delays our advance. In addition, couple of French idiom clearly demonstrates that “stair” is used to symbolize hindrance in progress.
Such interpretation of dream utilizing personal context rather than universal patrimony can describe the second dream that Raskolnikov has. Obviously, Raskolnikov is worried about losing the evidences and having them in detectives’ hand. Although it never happens, such dream is a reasonable prediction of future.
Implementing differential interpretation of the dream, I can easily conclude that Raskolnikov’s dream about detectives coming into the house is a sudden strike of superego or his guilty conscience that tells him to confess his sin. Freud’s universal interpretation of dream would not have applied to this one since such dream is driven from Raskolnikov’s guilty conscience from murdering the pawn broker.
Bibliography:
Pick, Daniel, and Lyndal Roper, eds. Dreams and History: The Interpretation of Dreams from Ancient Greece to Modern Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge, 2004. Questia. Web. 15 Feb. 2010.
page #: 179 - 199
summary:
1) summary of main arguments
2) something surprising or interesting learned
3) agree/disagree with the ideas and then apply this to a scene or example from the book (one not mentioned by the critic).
4) Please try to disagree at least once with a critic
The dreambok in Russia
- Views dreams aas a means of elucidating the future rather than unconscious
- Stem from older European tradition
- Assign a meaning to an object seen in the dream and then weave these symbols into an overall interpretation
- Principles of opposite
- Metonymy: saddle = journey or ink a letter
- Perceived qualities or appearances: hare = fear, pancake = letter
- Direct interpretation of a symbol (much more uncommon): dead relative = imminent death
- Came as fortune-telling books
- Separate symbols
n Astrological type: zodiac sign: crawfish: of this you may be truly sure your lover now will step through the door
n Alphabetical type: listed dream object into single interpretation
- Drawbacks of zodiac interpretation: only so many dream objects can be squeezed into 12 symbols: demanded minimal knowledge in astrology
- Books were means of enlightenment
- Dream interpretation was traditionally a breakfast-time activity in Russia and Scandinavia
- Romanticism came in and dream interpretation became more significant
- But it declined to a mere entertainment as romanticism waned and the number of educated people waxed
- As literacy and authority was focused on men, women took most part of the oral tradition of dream interpretation
- Dreambook were no longer in usage of educated