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The Interpretation Of Dreams | |
File name | The Interpretation Of Dreams |
File Description | We are told that the dream is not god-sent, that it is not of divine but of daimonic origin. For nature is really daimonic, not divine; that is to say, the dream is not a supernatural revelation, but is subject to the laws of the human spirit, which has, of course, a kinship with the divine. The dream is defined as the psychic activity of the sleeper, inasmuch as he is asleep. Aristotle was acquainted with some of the characteristics of the dream-life; for example, he knew that a dream converts the slight sensations perceived in sleep into intense sensations (`one imagines that one is walking through fire, and feels hot, if this or that part of the body becomes only quite slightly warm), which led him to conclude that dreams might easily betray to the physician the first indications of an incipient physical change which escaped observation during the day. As has been said, those writers of antiquity who preceded Aristotle did not regard the dream as a product of the dreaming psyche, but as an inspiration of divine origin, and in ancient times, the two opposing tendencies which we shall find throughout the ages in respect of the evaluation of the dream-life, were already perceptible. |
Category Name | Psychology |
Subject Name | Developmental Psychology |
Module Name | Psycho sexual development |
Micro Category Name | Interpretation of Dreams |
Level | Bachleors |
File Type | PPT |
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