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I wonder, in fact, if it's how we decide whether or not to accept people bursting into song during musicals — that transition, after all, pretty definitively shifts any narrative's level of realism into the realm of dream-reality, so maybe we only buy it if the musical addition sufficiently mirrors what we (perhaps subconsciously) recognize as the dramatic dream-work, the unconscious desire motivating the shift from speech into song.
Archive 2008-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Freud agreed with previous theories that dreams were a psychological effort at wish-fulfillment, but saw the representation of those wishes not in the dream-thought, but in the dream-work; the unconscious desire that fuels the dream can be found in the particular way the dream-thought is transposed into an actual dream.
You Stepped Out of a Dream Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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In other words, dream-work is dualistic in nature.
Natasha Dern: Can Dreams Reveal Potential or Predict The Future? 2010
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I wonder, in fact, if it's how we decide whether or not to accept people bursting into song during musicals — that transition, after all, pretty definitively shifts any narrative's level of realism into the realm of dream-reality, so maybe we only buy it if the musical addition sufficiently mirrors what we (perhaps subconsciously) recognize as the dramatic dream-work, the unconscious desire motivating the shift from speech into song.
You Stepped Out of a Dream Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Because what he was really interested in was the dream-work, the specific translation from latent thought to actual dream.
You Stepped Out of a Dream Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Freud agreed with previous theories that dreams were a psychological effort at wish-fulfillment, but saw the representation of those wishes not in the dream-thought, but in the dream-work; the unconscious desire that fuels the dream can be found in the particular way the dream-thought is transposed into an actual dream.
Archive 2008-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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In other words, dream-work is dualistic in nature.
Natasha Dern: Can Dreams Reveal Potential or Predict The Future? 2010
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In other words, dream-work is dualistic in nature.
Natasha Dern: Can Dreams Reveal Potential or Predict The Future? 2010
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Because what he was really interested in was the dream-work, the specific translation from latent thought to actual dream.
Archive 2008-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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These nightmares are generally psychological in nature, and if dream-work and journaling do not help alleviate them, psychotherapy or hypnosis sometimes can.
Janet Kinosian: A Short Guide To Understanding Your Nightmares 2009
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