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Episode 116: Freud on Dreams

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Function of Dreams in the Psychic Economy

Fantasy plays an important role psychically in the psychic economy, that it helps us cope with these internal stimuli. The overall picture of the function of the dream and how you could get at the homunculi, the different systems acting within the dream, i thought was extremely clever,. So i enjoyed this quite a bit. Other closings, he's a tremendously good writer. It was very entertaining, as well as a very conosemeless read, and that's important. If you're not going to dig into all the case work and use evidence spase practices to validate his theories, then we're left in a place where we can't necessarily make a judgment about the right

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