MSc in Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies

DREAMS UNIT

The Conditions of Dreaming: Screens, Spaces and Symbols
SUMMER TERM 2009

Coordinator: Dr Rael Meyerowitz

AIM : To outline and discuss certain post-Freudian developments in the psychoanalytic theory of dreams

OBJECTIVE : To enable students who have some acquaintance with Freud's dream theory to explore how later analysts, from several different orientations and traditions, have used dreams clinically and understood their theoretical form and function

BACKGROUND READING : Freud, Sigmund (1901), 'On dreams'. Standard Edition , 5, pp. 629-686. Book in office Bion, W.R. (1962), Learning from Experience , Chapters 1-7 ( London : Heinemann). Book/PEP Winnicott, D.W. (1971), 'Dreaming, fantasying and living' in Playing and Reality ( London : Tavistock Publications). Folder

Seminar 1

Saturday 2nd May 9.30 - 11.00am

Dr Rael Meyerowitz

ESSENTIAL READING : Schwartz, Delmore (1937), 'In dreams begin responsibilities' (short story) in In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories ( New York : New Directions). Folder

Lewin, Bertram (1946), 'Sleep, the mouth and the dream screen'. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly , 15: 419-34. Folder/PEP

Seminar 2

Saturday 9th May 9.30-11.00am

Dr Rael Meyerowitz

ESSENTIAL READING : Khan, M. Masud R. (1974), 'The use and abuse of dream in psychic experience' in The Dream Discourse Today , ed. Sara Flanders ( London : Routledge). Folder

Segal, Hanna (1980), 'The function of dreams' in The Dream Discourse Today , ed. Sara Flanders ( London : Routledge). Folder  

Seminar 3

Saturday 17 th May 9.30-11.00am

Dr Rael Meyerowitz

Anzieu, Didier (1989), 'The film of the dream' in The Dream Discourse Today , ed. Sara Flanders ( London : Routledge). Folder

Seminar 4

Saturday 24 th May 9.30-11.00am

Dr Rael Meyerowitz

ESSENTIAL READING : Fonagy, Peter (2000), 'Dreams of borderline patients' in Dreaming and Thinking , ed. Rosine Jozef Perelberg ( London : Karnac). Folder

Ogden, Thomas H. (2003), 'On not being able to dream'. International Journal of Psychoanalysis , 84: 17-30. Folder/PEP

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