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Discussion

Discussion WALTER BONIME S I read Dr. Gershman's paper, I personal context could then be the found myself in agreement with referrent. Furthermore, the two might many of his basic assumptions about blend. The individual dreaming about the nature and use of dreams. Among the pig, for example, might be the outstanding elements which he responding in sleep with the disgust emphasizes are: the idiosyncratic born of an experience from earlier meaning of symbols, the importance of years, but now directed against a cur- the interaction between patient and rent culturally detested political ob- therapist in the use of dream data, the ject, a policeman; or against a socially importance of affect, and his general detested, currently dominating man, statement that while "the dream is a genus: ma~e chauvinist pig. CuRural valuable instrument," its value depends and idiosyncratic referrents are both on how we use it. significant and we must often depend The comments to follow will be elab- on the patient to discover even his par- oration, further emphasis, some modi- ticular cultural referrent. fication, some disagreement con- Dr. Gershman remarks that the cerning these points and some brief meaning of these symbols can be additional considerations about derived http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
1973 The Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF01872575
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Abstract

WALTER BONIME S I read Dr. Gershman's paper, I personal context could then be the found myself in agreement with referrent. Furthermore, the two might many of his basic assumptions about blend. The individual dreaming about the nature and use of dreams. Among the pig, for example, might be the outstanding elements which he responding in sleep with the disgust emphasizes are: the idiosyncratic born of an experience from earlier meaning of symbols, the importance of years, but now directed against a cur- the interaction between patient and rent culturally detested political ob- therapist in the use of dream data, the ject, a policeman; or against a socially importance of affect, and his general detested, currently dominating man, statement that while "the dream is a genus: ma~e chauvinist pig. CuRural valuable instrument," its value depends and idiosyncratic referrents are both on how we use it. significant and we must often depend The comments to follow will be elab- on the patient to discover even his par- oration, further emphasis, some modi- ticular cultural referrent. fication, some disagreement con- Dr. Gershman remarks that the cerning these points and some brief meaning of these symbols can be additional considerations about derived

Journal

The American Journal of PsychoanalysisSpringer Journals

Published: Sep 1, 1973

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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