The Role of the Dream in the Analysis of a Latency Child
The Role of the Dream in the Analysis of a Latency Child
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梦在潜伏儿童分析中的作用
DOI:
10.1177/000306516201000203
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发表时间:
1962
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
M. Harley
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作者:
M. Harley
LTHOUCH not much has been written about the role of dreams in child analysis, it would seem that somewhat opposing views A have been noted. There are those who have reported that dreams play an inconsequential role in their treatment of children, and that only incidentally are they told directly to the therapist. Others have been impressed by the frequency and ease with which their child patients are able to communicate their dreams, and even to participate in dream interpretation, attributing this state of affairs to the child’s relative closeness to his unconscious and hence to his dream life. Among the latency children who have come my way, some have told their dreams merely occasionally and in general, although not invariably, have tended to veer away from the possibility that any meaning other than what is apparent in the manifest content could have validity; a lesser number have related their dreams rather abundantly, and often have shown zeal and aptitude in unearthing the hidden dream thoughts. Questions concerning these differing attitudes which latency children shorn toward their dreams are interesting to ask but, for me at least, not easy to answer. As Bornstein (1) has reminded us, latency is a time when the child’s ego is still actively struggling to establish secondary-process supremacy. Bornstein also has noted how in the latter part of latency, although ego defenses are now more consolidated, the child’s but recently acquired equilibrium is still, to some extent,