Siddhartha Ribeiro
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He would say, dreams have a meaning. They are related to people's lives. They are not something that can be dismissed, but they also cannot be predetermined. If you want to make sense of somebody's dream, you need to understand that person. You need to listen to that person. You need to share the context of that person. And this is what is done in psychoanalysis and in psychotherapy in general.
So Freud was able to say, yes, dreams have a meaning, but this meaning is centered in the dreamer.
So Freud was able to say, yes, dreams have a meaning, but this meaning is centered in the dreamer.
So Freud was able to say, yes, dreams have a meaning, but this meaning is centered in the dreamer.
Dreams work. are meaningful if we pay attention to them. So it's a relationship that we build, not just with ourselves, but with those mental creatures that inhabit ourselves. Our minds are filled with creatures that we, people, people that we met, people that are fictional, people that we met a long time ago and we imagine how they are now.
Dreams work. are meaningful if we pay attention to them. So it's a relationship that we build, not just with ourselves, but with those mental creatures that inhabit ourselves. Our minds are filled with creatures that we, people, people that we met, people that are fictional, people that we met a long time ago and we imagine how they are now.
Dreams work. are meaningful if we pay attention to them. So it's a relationship that we build, not just with ourselves, but with those mental creatures that inhabit ourselves. Our minds are filled with creatures that we, people, people that we met, people that are fictional, people that we met a long time ago and we imagine how they are now.
So those creatures are, they evolve in our minds throughout our lives. that has been proposed 120 years ago by Sigmund Freud, and then Carl Jung said similar things, and science dismissed that for a long period of time.
So those creatures are, they evolve in our minds throughout our lives. that has been proposed 120 years ago by Sigmund Freud, and then Carl Jung said similar things, and science dismissed that for a long period of time.
So those creatures are, they evolve in our minds throughout our lives. that has been proposed 120 years ago by Sigmund Freud, and then Carl Jung said similar things, and science dismissed that for a long period of time.
And one thing I do in my book, The Oracle of Night, is to defend the legacy of psychoanalysis and to show that, in fact, many of the things that were proposed about dreams at the turn of the 20th century ended up being corroborated, verified by science.
And one thing I do in my book, The Oracle of Night, is to defend the legacy of psychoanalysis and to show that, in fact, many of the things that were proposed about dreams at the turn of the 20th century ended up being corroborated, verified by science.
And one thing I do in my book, The Oracle of Night, is to defend the legacy of psychoanalysis and to show that, in fact, many of the things that were proposed about dreams at the turn of the 20th century ended up being corroborated, verified by science.
The science of dreaming has evolved. Many things that were dismissed in the 50s and 60s are the hottest science nowadays, including lucid dreaming. In the 80s and 90s, to study dreams was bad for people's career, like studying psychedelics. And nowadays it's hot and now it's something that is trendy.
The science of dreaming has evolved. Many things that were dismissed in the 50s and 60s are the hottest science nowadays, including lucid dreaming. In the 80s and 90s, to study dreams was bad for people's career, like studying psychedelics. And nowadays it's hot and now it's something that is trendy.
The science of dreaming has evolved. Many things that were dismissed in the 50s and 60s are the hottest science nowadays, including lucid dreaming. In the 80s and 90s, to study dreams was bad for people's career, like studying psychedelics. And nowadays it's hot and now it's something that is trendy.
We are not isolated, right? We are not living an experience, each of us, that is disconnected from everybody else. Rather, the contrary. We go through things in our lives, even though our lives are quite different, but we go through things that are quite similar. We're all born. We need to be fed. We need to be taken care of. We grow up. We go through puberty. So all those things, right?
We are not isolated, right? We are not living an experience, each of us, that is disconnected from everybody else. Rather, the contrary. We go through things in our lives, even though our lives are quite different, but we go through things that are quite similar. We're all born. We need to be fed. We need to be taken care of. We grow up. We go through puberty. So all those things, right?
We are not isolated, right? We are not living an experience, each of us, that is disconnected from everybody else. Rather, the contrary. We go through things in our lives, even though our lives are quite different, but we go through things that are quite similar. We're all born. We need to be fed. We need to be taken care of. We grow up. We go through puberty. So all those things, right?
If you have a long life, you will go through all those phases which are shared with other people.