it’s finally going mainstream…
“Solms argues that dreams are a key to bringing psychoanalysis, effectively the study of the subjective experience of the brain, closer to neuroscience, the objective and more scientific counterpart.”
The interesting thing here is how they relate the current work back to Freud’s original idea of dreams as wish fulfillment. I remember taking a Psychology of Dreams course in my final year of University, and sitting in class trying very hard to follow my prof as he outlined the very sophisticated theory surrounding the difference between sublimation and representation in Freud’s dream theory.
Freud’s not just the Oedipus complex, you know. (Although he is all about wishes, and the fears that arise from the thought of having those wishes fulfilled…)
