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The ghost of Sigmund Freud haunts Mark Solms's dream theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2001

J. Allan Hobson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 allan_hobson@hms.havard.edu
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Abstract

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Recent neuropsychological data indicating that an absence of dreaming follows lesions of frontal subcortical white matter have been interpreted by Solms as supportive of Freud's wish-fulfillment, disguise-censorship dream theory. The purpose of this commentary is to call attention to Solms's commitment to Freud and to challenge and contrast his specific arguments with the simpler and more complete tenets of the activation-synthesis hypothesis.

[Hobson et al.; Nielsen; Solms]

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press