The dream in the process of valuation: A method of interpretation.

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Contains theory and a description of a method for dream interpretation. In this theory, the person is seen as a historic process, oriented from a certain point in time and space to the past, present, and future. As this orientation varies, different valuations emerge. In line with the apparent continuity of the dream and the waking state, a distinction is made between dream valuations (DVs), which usually have a pictorial character, and wake valuations (WVs), which typically have a conceptual character. These types of experience are combined and organized in a valuation system. In order to investigate the personal meaning of dreams, I described in detail a method of self-confrontation as a tool for studying the interrelation of DVs and WVs, their affective properties, and their long-term development. In their manifold variety, DVs and WVs are expressed at the manifest level of personality organization. At the latent level, a limited number of basic motives operate. The relation between the two levels is made explicit in this article by applying the method in three idiographic studies. Three people described their dreams, calling on symbols that were found to be used at some other point in time for the metaphorical expression of significant aspects of their life situations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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