Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: How the Mindbrain Transforms the World
The Mindbrain Creates Its Own Version of the World
Condensation, Interobjects, and Categories
Displacement
Metaphor
- Introduction
- Metaphor and Bodily Experience
- How Metaphor Helps Us Understand Dreams
- Dream As Allegory
- Dreams Pictorialize Metaphors
- Combined Metaphors, Modified Metaphors, and Mixed Metaphors
- Nonlinguistic Metaphor – Music, Visual Arts, and Advertising
- Synaesthesia and Synkinesia
- Metaphoric Mappings Between Concepts and Our Bodies
- Blending Theory vs. Cognitive Metaphor Theory
- Metaphors Gone Awry
- Metaphor and Transference
- Metaphor and Rebus
Puns — Linguistic and Nonlinguistic
Homoforms and Homomelodies
Metonymy
Symbols
Dreams and the Mindbrain’s Structuring of Experience
Psychological Defenses and Dreams
Part II: Working with Dreams Clinically
New Ways Of Conceptualizing and Working With Dreams
The Dream Guides Its Own Analysis: How to Work with Dreams over Time
Group Dream Interpretation
Part III: Dreams, Knowledge, Memory, Emotion, and the Mindbrain
How Neuropsychoanalysis and Clinical Psychoanalysis Can Learn From Each Other
Elusive Illusions: Reality Judgment and Reality Assignment In Dreams and Waking Life
When Your Mindbrain Knows Things That You Don’t
Memory, Knowledge, and Dreams
The Language Of Thought and the Wakingwork
References