Dreaming By the Book

by Marinelli, Lydia; Mayer, Andreas

• ISBN13: 9781590510094
• ISBN10: 1590510097
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-17
• Publisher: Other Press

Summary

More than a hundred years after their first publication, Freudrs"s theories of dream interpretation occupy a firm place in the canon of Western thought. SinceThe Interpretation of Dreamsappeared in 1899, a significant psychoanalytic movement has grown out of the multiple processes detailed within Freudrs"s essential and foundational text. Lydia Marinelli and Andreas Mayer offer a thorough and lucid historical and sociological investigation of the changes dream interpretation underwent between 1899 and 1930, a period of time over which eight different editions of the book were produced.In this groundbreaking study, Marinelli and Mayer make the case that Freudrs"s readers contributed heavily to the numerous revised editions of the book through their invaluable critiques. Marinelli and Mayer systematically emphasize the involvement of these individuals, who have not previously been taken into consideration or who have been insufficiently accounted for in the editions ofThe Interpretation of Dreamsto date: the critics, colleagues, and patients who formed the audience for each edition of the study as it appeared. The various alterations in the text over the course of its eight editions are thus not examined as immanent theoretical movements oriented toward Freud alone. Instead, they are examined as indicators for social negotiations between the author and the members of the growing psychoanalytic movement in Zurich and Vienna. The authors provide strong arguments toward the case that psychoanalytic theory is the outcome of collective and conflictual processes, revealing thatThe Interpretation of Dreamsis inextricably intertwined with the formation of the psychoanalytic movement and its bifurcations.The book is supplemented by texts and correspondence that have long remained unpublished or out of print, including two important works by Otto Rank that were part of the fourth and following editions of Freudrs"s book, as well as a text by Sigmund Freudrs"s brother, Alexander, and letters from Eugen Bleuler and Alphonse Maeder.

Author Biography

Dr. Lydia Marinelli

Dr. Lydia Marinelli is Research Director of the Sigmund Freud Foundation and has published works on the history of psychoanalysis and dreaming.


Andreas Mayer

Andreas Mayer holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Bielefeld (Germany) and is currently a research fellow at the Centre de sociologie de l'innovation, Ecole des Mines, Paris.



Susan Fairfield

Susan Fairfield is an editor, translator, and poet. She is also the author of papers on literary criticism, a psychoanalyst, and co-editor of Bringing the Plague: Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis. She lives in the Bay Area of California.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(8)
I Reading, Writing, Dreaming: The Interpretation of Dreams as Substitute for a Technical Manual	9	(42)
Between Resistance and Disagreement: Lay and Specialist Readers	13	(12)
Unconscious Writing: Dream Analyses in Letters	25	(14)
Conceited Doctors and Well-Trained Patients	39	(12)
II A Royal Road and Its Branchings: The Transformation of The Interpretation of Dreams to a Symbol Lexicon	51	(70)
A ``Central Bureau for Dreams'': Collective Research on Symbolism	55	(12)
Reversals of the Theory	67	(6)
Philology, Typography, and the Oedipus Complex	73	(16)
Theory in the Dream: The Phenomenon of Autosymbolism	89	(12)
Analysis without Synthesis	101	(12)
The Visibility of Repression	113	(8)
III The Interpretation of Dreams between ``Historical Document'' and New Dream Languages	121	(18)
The Return of the Author Freud	123	(4)
Dreaming Translators and Legitimate Interpreters	127	(12)
Afterword: The Interpretation of Dreams Today	139	(100)
IV Appendices: Sources for the History of The Interpretation of Dreams
A. Alexander Freud: ``The Interpretation of Dreams''	147	(12)
B. Seven Letters from Eugen Bleuler to Sigmund Freud, 1905--1906	159	(18)
C. Three Letters from the Correspondence between Sigmund Freud and Alphonse Maeder	177	(14)
D. Otto Rank: ``Dreams and Poetry,'' ``Dreams and Myth'': Two Texts from Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams	191	(48)
References	239	(14)
Index	253