Open AccessAnguish in the dream
Author(s) -
Marcos José Müller
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
veritas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1984-6746
pISSN - 0042-3955
DOI - 10.15448/1984-6746.2021.1.40250
Subject(s) - anguish , dream , reading (process) , meaning (existential) , unconscious mind , interpretation (philosophy) , psychic , psychoanalysis , affect (linguistics) , epistemology , philosophy , psychology , linguistics , psychotherapist , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
In this article, my objective is to confront a structural reading (of Freud’s and Lacan’s meaning) with an ontological reading (of Merleau-Ponty’s meaning) concerning the genesis and clinical interpretation of dreams, regarding the formal operators who guide both readings, highlighting their differences. Beyond the “symbolic operator” - tasked with explaining the formation of unconscious desires that the dream would fulfill - it is my purpose to discuss the difference how - in each reading - the “real operator” is employed. In both, the real is pointed out as what would explain the emergence of anguish before which the dream would find a limit, leading the dreamer to awake. Therefore, according to each of the readings, the real concerns very different occurrences. And the question I intend to answer in this article is: how does each of these ways of understanding the real affect the comprehension of what anguish is in the dream field? In what sense, for Merleau-Ponty, can the dream be understood as a surreal passage?