Human Psychology As Seen Through The Dream

This is Volume XXXIV of thirty-eight in the General Psychology series. Originally published in 1924, the present book is an attempt to supplement the slight sketch of the Anxiety Hypothesis put forward in ‘The Psychology of Self-Consciousness’. The former book aimed at explaining the difference between the difference between the perceptual and conceptual aspects of life, and at showing, by reference to general literature, the anxiety elements in human thought. In this book in Part I anxiety is described as arising through the reciprocal actions of introjection and projection to supply the warp and woof not only of individual character, but of an unseen spiritual self; in Part II is traced out the sinuous course of the dream life conceived as a dramatic cycle.

Part I The Dream is the Psychological Apparatus Harmonising Experience; 1. Introduction; 2. The Inauguration of Introjection and Projection; 3. Introjection and Projection and their Relation to Language; 4. Projection; 5. The Message of Symbolism; 6. How the Symbol can Make or Mar Life; 7. The Projection of Emotion; Part II The Anxiety Drama; 8. Sources and General Character; 9. The Anxiety Drama Appears to be Moulded by the Sexuality Function; ch0010 The Plot is Complicated by the Subject's Revolt; 11. The Expiation Phase of the Anxiety Drama; 12. Variants for the Romance Form of the Anxiety Drama; Part III The Self Through the Dream; 13. The Protagonist in the Anxiety Drama and His Concerns; 14. The Unseen Self; 15. Conclusion;

Julia Turner