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Speaking Body

Freud discovered that dreams were the "royal road to the unconscious," and he used dreamwork as an integral aspect of psychoanalytic practice. However, in recent years dreamwork has become far less utilized in psychotherapies. In this episode of InForm:Podcast Neil & Jared talk about some ways to do dreamwork -- the use of dreams in psychoanalysis/psychotherapy to get at truths that are important but hidden.

Show Notes

INTRO:
Freud discovered that dreams were the "royal road to the unconscious," and he used dreamwork as an integral aspect of psychoanalytic practice. However, in recent years dreamwork has become far less utilized in psychotherapies.

In this episode of InForm:Podcast Neil & Jared talk about some ways to do dreamwork -- the use of dreams in psychoanalysis / psychotherapy to get at truths that are important but hidden.


CONTENTS: 
  • Why do dream work
  • "Self-supporting semantic webs" 
  • The ego v. The subject 
  • Dreams as "random firing neurons" 
  • (Some name drops here and there...) 
  • Manifest content / Latent content 
  • The subject of the statement / The subject of the enunciation 
  • Tell me the ream two times 

Creators and Guests

Host
Neil Gorman
Neil Gorman is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst tin private practice near Chicago. He is the founder and owner of Interlude Wellness PLLC, a member of the Lacanian Compass, the New Lacaian School (NLS), and the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP).

What is Speaking Body ?

From the clinic to culture, where psychoanalysis meets the everyday.