Dreams

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–Freudian psychoanalysis is predicated largely and principally on a dialectic between lost memory, and remembrance as compensation for loss; many of the central concepts of Freudian theory, such as the "unconscious," the "repressed," the "return of the repressed," "free association" are intimately related to questions of memory, loss, remembrance, reminiscence, and recollection. Neurosis for Freud, and, for that matter, most of the psychological pathologies with which he dealt in his medical practice, he considered to be illnesses related to memory and remembrance. He wrote: "Hysterical patients suffer largely from reminiscences." (Studies on Hysteria, 1895) –What does it mean to "suffer from reminiscences"? = Incomplete engagement with some (traumatic) event in the past; it has neither been completely forgotten (overcome), nor adequately remembered. But reminiscence also alludes to idea of similarity between things: one event is reminiscent of another = hints at Freudian idea of assoc

Dreams R. Gray Lecture Notes: Freud's Conception of the Psyche (Unconscious) and His Theory of Dreams I. Freud's Conception of the Structure and Function of the Psyche A) Background: Freud's Theory of the Unconscious: Hysteria and Memory: Freudian psychoanalysis is predicated largely and principally on a dialectic between lost memory, and remembrance as compensation for loss; many of the central concepts of Freudian theory, such as the "unconscious," the "repressed," the "return of the repressed," "free association" are intimately related to questions of memory, loss, remembrance, remini

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