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The dream in periodical literature: 1860‐1910
Author(s) -
Kemp Hendrika Vande
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(198101)17:1<88::aid-jhbs2300170111>3.0.co;2-w
Subject(s) - dream , freudian slip , consciousness , content (measure theory) , interpretation (philosophy) , metaphysics , psychoanalysis , speculation , epistemology , psychology , philosophy , psychotherapist , mathematical analysis , linguistics , mathematics , economics , macroeconomics
This article is based on pre‐Freudian dream psychology as it was presented in English and American periodicals and journals during the half century from 1860 to 1910. The author briefly examines the place of dreams in early American psychology and the degree of professional interaction and cross‐fertilization of ideas. Major trends in nineteenth‐century dream theory and speculation are examined by discussion of four areas of the literature: the reporting and recording of dreams, dreams and memory, dreams and reality, and consciousness in dreams. The author concludes that the post‐Freudian tradition of experimental dream investigation and clinical dream interpretation has failed to incorporate a third trend in the pre‐Freudian literature: the popular interest in parapsychological dreams and the philosophical interest in the epistemology and metaphysics of dreaming.