The Umbilical Cord of Psychoanalysis: Freud’s Theory of Dreams
In this article, originally written on the occasion of the New Hebrew translation to Freud’s “The Interpretation of Dreams” ([2007] 1900), I consider Freud’s Dream theory in light of the paradigmatic shifts that characterised his thinking as well as post-Freudian psychoanalytic discourse. Reviewing the place of the dream among the major psychoanalytic schools – Object relation, Kleinian, self psychology and intersubjective theory — I argue that Freud’s Dream Book should have lost none of its significance in contemporary psychoanalysis as a text that conveys psychoanalysis’ dual commitment to subjectifying and ascribing personal meaning to the objective aspects of human experience while proposing universal and objective perspective on personal truths and sense of individuality. Far from being a historical curiosity, dream analysis should retain its unique position in psychoanalysis on the clinical as well as the conceptual level.
in Hebrew