Il simbolismo dei sogni radicato nell’uso linguistico

Journal title PSICOANALISI
Author/s Gregorio Kohon
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2024/2
Language Italian Pages 12 P. 49-60 File size 88 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSI2024-002004
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The interpretation of the dream moves from the images to the thoughts, which are consequently translated into words. Only then, Freud thought, at the level of verbal discourse, could their meaning be recaptured. This prominence of verbal expression as a means of representing abstract thought, distinguished Freud’s method from any other. Two brief clinical examples are presented. It is argued that for certain patients (described as symbolically impoverished), dreams, though symbolically created, become the equivalent of acting out.

Keywords: dream, symbolic process, symbolic impoverishment, acting-word representationimage.

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Gregorio Kohon, Il simbolismo dei sogni radicato nell’uso linguistico in "PSICOANALISI" 2/2024, pp 49-60, DOI: 10.3280/PSI2024-002004