ABSTRACT
The psycho-analytic theory of dream interpretation, or the psycho-analytic theory of dreaming, has been discussed by Paul Ricoeur in his monumental book, Freud and Philosophy: an Essay on Interpretation. Richard M. Jones in his book The New Psychology of Dreaming has discussed the implications of the recent researches in the psychophysiology of sleep and dreaming for the classical dream theory. Ego’s narcissistic capacity for gratification from dream-world in lieu of either the pure narcissism of sleep or the concrete satisfaction of reality. This implies a capacity to tolerate frustration by the ego and accept symbolic satisfactions. A capacity in the ego for symbolization and dream-work, in which sufficient counter-cathexis against primary process is sustained for the dream to become an experience of intra-psychic communication. The author presents his argument in terms of two categories of dream-experience: one relating to the incapacity to use symbolic processes entailed in dream formation, and the other about the dream-space in which the dream actualizes.
