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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 66, No. 2, June 2006 ( 2006) DOI: 10.1007/s11231-006-9011-9 ON DREAMS: DISCUSSION OF PAUL LIPPMANN’S PAPER ‘‘THE CANARY IN THE MIND’’ Marilyn Charles Paul Lippmanns paper ‘‘The Canary in the Mind’’ (preceding paper in this issue) is in the psychoanalytic tradition in that it encourages us to take seriously—and also playfully—the tensions between what we believe we know and what we fail to see. Much as Bion (1967) warned against memory and desire as forces occluding perceptual possibilities, he also warned against believing too firmly in our theories or conceptual con- structs and in this way inhibiting our own learning (Bion, 1977). So then, we come up against this issue of the dream that Paul so delightfully captures in his image of the ‘‘canary in the mind’’. I found myself playing with this metaphor, thinking first of the dream itself as a canary in the mind, warning against whatever might become lost or oc- cluded if we fail to give it due thought and respect. But then, I saw that that is not really what Paul is pointing to. Rather, he is showing us how dreams, themselves, come to carry meanings within a
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis – Springer Journals
Published: Jul 6, 2006
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