Publisher's Synopsis
The fourth title in a series of limited-edition, low-cost books, devised and launched by The Institute of Psycho-Analysis in London. The books feature recent lectures on important psychoanalytic themes as part of the London Public Lecture series, organized by the British Psycho-Analytic Society.;These collections have been chosen and edited by British psychoanalysts, members of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and experts in the areas of psychoanalytic work concerned.;This collection consists of five articles, rooted in Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" (1900), by contemporary analysts who are all members of the British Psycho-Analytical Society: Ignes Sodre, Victor Sedlak, Sara Flanders, Gregorio Kohon, Peter Fonagy and Rosine Jozef Perelberg. The papers cover: dreams and the use of omnipotent and manic defence; the dream space and counter-transference; concrete thinking, the dream space and eating disorders; dreams, symbolic impoverishment and the question of the Other; dreams and borderline patients; and "the oracle" in dreams.
