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In Practice: Fantasy Can Invent Nothing New.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified], SculptureCenter, 2016.
- Summary:
- "A hundred years ago, Freud delivered eleven lectures on dreams during the academic winter sessions of 1915-17 at the University of Vienna. These extemporaneous presentations comprise a third of A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, a frank and conversational volume that was later published. Subversive in facilitating a process for the mind to author fantastical scenes and narratives, Freud's notion of "condensation" was addressed in his lecture titled "The Dream-Work." In the talk, he carefully and emphatically explained how individuals translate disparate conscious thoughts into a composite of visual elements-proposing that latent dream thoughts (achieved through association) bring forth dream elements in the form of fragments, abbreviations, and "plastic, concrete piece[s] of imagery." Freud's subsequent work was shaped by the realization that individuals work on their psychic survival less like scientists and more like artists. He credited his patients with an extraordinary capacity for representation. He called them fantasists, and it is believed he envied them for it..."-- provided by distributor.
- Notes:
- Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
- Standard Copyright.
- Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 09/29/2025).
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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