{"product_id":"the-sociological-interpretation-of-dreams-hardback-9781509537945","title":"The Sociological Interpretation of Dreams (Hardback) 9781509537945","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Sociological Interpretation of Dreams\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBernard Lahire (Author), Helen Morrison (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509537945, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 June 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e450 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 16 x 4.1 cm, 0.771 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e�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.�\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eL'Obs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e �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.�\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLes Inrocks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"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.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCraig Calhoun, Arizona State University\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eGary Alan Fine, Northwestern University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFor Freud, dreams were the royal road to the unconscious: through the process of interpretation, the manifest and sometimes bewildering content of dreams can be traced back to the unconscious representations underlying it. But can we understand dreams in another way by considering how the unconscious is structured by our social experiences?  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is hypothesis that underlies this highly original book by Bernard Lahire, who argues that dreams can be interpreted sociologically by seeing the dream as a nocturnal form of self-to-self communication. Lahire rejects Freud’s view that the manifest dream content is the result of a process of censorship: as a form of self-to-self communication, the dream is the symbolic arena most completely freed from all forms of censorship. In Lahire’s view, the dream is a message which can be understood only by relating it to the social world of the dreamer, and in particular to the problems that concern him or her during waking life. As a form of self-to-self communication, the dream is an intimate private diary, providing us with the elements of a profound and subtle understanding of who and what we are. Studying dreams enables us to discover our most deep-seated and hidden preoccupations, and to understand the thought processes that operate within us, beyond the reach of our volition.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe study of dreams and dreaming has largely been the preserve of psychoanalysis, psychology and neuroscience. By showing how dreams are connected to the lived experience of individuals in the social world, this highly original book puts dreams and dreaming at the heart of the social sciences.  It will be of great value to students and scholars in sociology, psychology and psychoanalysis and to anyone interested in the nature and meaning of dreams.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: A dream for the social sciences                                                              \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1. Advances in the science of dreams      \u003cbr\u003e                                                         \u003cbr\u003e The dream before Freud                                         \u003cbr\u003e                                                       \u003cbr\u003e The need for an integrative theory \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Scientific progress and relativism \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The art of limping: the end of pure speculation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On the scientific interpretation of dreams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Beyond Freud \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. The dream: an intrinsically social individual reality  \u003cbr\u003e                                   \u003cbr\u003e Can the social be absorbed into the cerebral?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A few precedents in the social sciences\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Limitations of environmentalist approaches: the ecology of dreams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Limitations of literal approaches: content analysis of dream accounts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In what sense are dreams a social issue?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A general formula for the interpretation of dreams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 3. Psychoanalysis and the social sciences   \u003cbr\u003e                                                    \u003cbr\u003e Between biological and social  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Psychoanalysis and the general formula for interpreting practices \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Infantile hypothesis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sexual hypothesis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The highs and lows of the dream: sexuality and domination\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Incorporated past and the unconscious          \u003cbr\u003e                                         \u003cbr\u003e Ways in which the incorporated past is actualized\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The statistician brain or practical anticipation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The internalization of the regularities of experience \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Oneiric schemas and the incorporated past\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A critique of the event-focused approach\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 5. Unconscious and involuntary consciousness  \u003cbr\u003e                                                               \u003cbr\u003e The involuntary consciousness of the dreamer \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Unconsciousness or involuntary consciousness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The unconscious without repression    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 6. Formal censorship, moral censorship: the double relaxation     \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The most private of the private: on stage and behind the scenes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e All dreams are not the fulfillment of an unsatisfied wish \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 7. The existential situation and dreams     \u003cbr\u003e                                                                           \u003cbr\u003e Dream and outside the dream \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The driving force of emotions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The therapeutic and political effects of making problems explicit\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 8. Triggering events       \u003cbr\u003e                                                                                                                                                                                                            \u003cbr\u003e The day residue: theoretical and methodological inaccuracies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The day residue: the inertia of habit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The deferred effects of triggering events\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nocturnal perceptions and sensations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 9. The context of sleep    \u003cbr\u003e                                                                                                                                                          \u003cbr\u003e Cerebral and psychic constraints\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Withdrawing from the flow of interactions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Self-to-self communication: internal language, formal and implicit relaxation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. The fundamental forms of psychic life\u003cbr\u003e                                           \u003cbr\u003e Practical analogy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Analogy in dreams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Transference in analysis as analogical transference\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Association: analogy and contiguity   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 11. The oneiric processes     \u003cbr\u003e                                                                \u003cbr\u003e Verbal language, symbolic capacity and dream images  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Visualization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dramatization-exaggeration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Personal or universal symbolization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Metaphor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Condensation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Inversions, opposites, contradictions  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 12. Variations in forms of expression    \u003cbr\u003e                                                                                         \u003cbr\u003e An expressive continuum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Forms of expression, forms of psychic activity and types of social context\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The false ‘free expression’ of dreams and the varying levels of contextual constraints\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The dream between assimilation and accommodation \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The dream, as opposed to literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Play and the dream\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dreams and daydreams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Psychoanalytic therapy: recreating the conditions of the dream \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 13. Elements of methodology for a sociology of dreams  \u003cbr\u003e                                  \u003cbr\u003e The fleeting nature of dreams and dream accounts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Do we need to know the dreamers to understand their dreams?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Access to the non-dream state: associations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Beyond associations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Access to the non-dream state: the sociological biography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Clarifications, associations, partial or systematic biographical accounts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion 1. A dream without any function   \u003cbr\u003e                                                  \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion 2. Dreams, will and freedom                    \u003cbr\u003e                                        \u003cbr\u003e Coda. The formula for interpreting practices – implications and challenges   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography                  \u003cbr\u003e                                                                                          \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Psychology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Psychology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Psychology%20%5BJM%5D%22\"\u003eJM\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52474999898392,"sku":"9781509537945","price":17.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509537945.jpg?v=1785802937","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-sociological-interpretation-of-dreams-hardback-9781509537945","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}