Psychoanalysis, Sleep and Dreams

Tridon, André, 1877-1922Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 2.8
Word count
191K words
Chapters
20

Tags

English Originals Psychology Research Clinical ObservationSleep ResearchPsychological InsightDream InterpretationUnconscious MindPsychoanalysisBehavioral InsightWestern ThoughtPopular PsychologyAcademic Study

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Psychoanalysis, Sleep and Dreams by André TridonAuthor: Tridon, André, 1877-1922,Language: English, Class: BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Release Date: Nov 1, 2013

Editor's review

This early popular work on psychoanalysis by André Tridon discusses sleep and dreams within a psychoanalytic framework and serves as firsthand material for understanding how psychoanalysis spread in the early twentieth century. Its value lies not in offering the conclusions of contemporary sleep science but in showing how Freudian theory was introduced into everyday topics: dream symbolism, unconscious activity, and psychological mechanisms during sleep are all developed in relatively accessible terms. For Chinese readers, the book is also a sample for observing the cross-linguistic spread of psychoanalytic concepts; read alongside modern sleep research, it reveals which hypotheses have been revised and which questions persist. It should be read as a document in intellectual history rather than a clinical guide; attending to its argumentative style and historical limitations will actually help one appreciate how psychoanalysis took root in public culture.

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Reading tips

  1. Read the table of contents and introduction first to confirm the author's basic framework for discussing sleep and dreams, then decide which chapters to read closely.
  2. After each chapter, note its core hypotheses in one or two sentences for comparison with other psychoanalytic literature.
  3. Read crosswise with popular contemporary sleep science books, marking which views have been revised by later research.
  4. If used as course material, select the chapters on dreams and read them alongside relevant passages from Freud's original works.

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Contents

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FAQ

Is this book suitable for beginners with no background to start learning psychoanalysis directly? It can serve as supplementary material, but not as the only introductory book. It was written early, and its terminology is not fully consistent with contemporary psychoanalytic textbooks. Beginners had best first read a standard introduction to psychoanalysis, then return to this book to see how concepts were explained to general readers; understanding will be smoother.
Do the book's views on sleep and dreams still hold today? They cannot be adopted wholesale. The book belongs to early twentieth-century popular psychoanalytic writing, and many of its hypotheses were later revised or replaced by sleep laboratory research and cognitive neuroscience. Its value lies mainly in intellectual history and the dissemination of concepts; readers should read it with a comparative awareness rather than treating it as current scientific conclusions.
This is a public-domain e-book; what should readers note? Public-domain e-books are usually prepared and proofread by volunteers and may contain minor differences in layout or punctuation. It is advisable to use reading software with adjustable fonts and to compare other editions where errors are suspected; also note that the book is in the original English, and specific page or paragraph locations should be checked if quotations are needed.

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About the author

Tridon, André, 1877-1922 Author · French · 1877–1922

André Tridon (1877–1922) was a French-born American writer and translator who was active in the transmission of ideas to English-speaking readers. He worked to introduce socialism and psychoanalysis, serving in an era when these two currents of thought were converging across Europe and America as an interpreter and translator for general readers. One work by him is held in this collection, Psychoanalysis, Sleep and Dreams, which suggests his approach: taking psychoanalysis as a point of departure, he discusses everyday experiences such as sleep and dreams in an expository and explanatory style, seeking to make the new psychology intelligible to readers of his time. Public information on his education and specific career is limited, and his surviving works are few, yet through translation and popularization he contributed to the spread of socialism and psychoanalysis among English-speaking readers.