Sigmund Freud Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/sigmund-freud/ Dream Research & Education Mon, 05 May 2025 22:10:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png Sigmund Freud Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/sigmund-freud/ 32 32 Reflections on An Introduction to the Psychology of Dreaming (1997) https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-an-introduction-to-the-psychology-of-dreaming-1997/ https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-an-introduction-to-the-psychology-of-dreaming-1997/#respond Mon, 05 May 2025 22:10:11 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4657 Early in my career, I had attitude about writing “secondary” texts. I didn’t want to write about what other people thought, I wanted to write about my own ideas. That’s why when the opportunity arose to write a book intended as an introductory textbook for college students, I hesitated. The offer came by way of …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/reflections-on-an-introduction-to-the-psychology-of-dreaming-1997/feed/ 0 Freud, Jung, and AI-generated Dream Interpretation https://bulkeley.org/freud-jung-and-ai-generated-dream-interpretation/ https://bulkeley.org/freud-jung-and-ai-generated-dream-interpretation/#respond Sat, 10 Feb 2024 00:58:15 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4548 This is a post I recently wrote about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the practice of dream interpretation.  In coordination with the team at the Elsewhere.to dream journaling app–Dan Kennedy, Gez Quinn, and Sheldon Juncker–we have been experimenting with “Freudian” and “Jungian” modes of interpretation, and the results are very encouraging. Maybe …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/freud-jung-and-ai-generated-dream-interpretation/feed/ 0 Aggression in Dreams https://bulkeley.org/aggression-in-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/aggression-in-dreams/#respond Mon, 31 May 2021 22:54:48 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4309 Hitting, fighting, chasing, shooting, killing—these are not only common themes in the news each day, they are also recurrent features of our dreams at night. Few studies have focused specifically on aggression in dreaming, even though Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, claimed that “the inclination to aggression is an original, self-subsisting instinctual disposition in …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/aggression-in-dreams/feed/ 0 The Natural Wisdom of Children’s Dreams https://bulkeley.org/the-natural-wisdom-of-childrens-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/the-natural-wisdom-of-childrens-dreams/#respond Mon, 31 May 2021 22:19:20 +0000 https://bulkeley.org/?p=4306 Dreaming is a natural and normal part of children’s lives as they grow and develop. Vivid dreams can appear in children as young as two or three years old. Many preschoolers between four and six years olds have frequent dream recall, and occasionally terrifying nightmares. As children develop cognitively and socially, their dreams become longer, …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/jungs-theory-of-dreams/feed/ 0 A Dream of Love: Interpreting the Dream Ballet in OSF’s Oklahoma! https://bulkeley.org/dream-love-interpreting-dream-ballet-osfs-oklahoma/ https://bulkeley.org/dream-love-interpreting-dream-ballet-osfs-oklahoma/#respond Thu, 03 May 2018 23:24:11 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3582 Peeling away Freudian assumptions to reach a deeper human truth about the capacity to love. A radiant new production of the musical Oklahoma! at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival re-interprets a classic American love story for contemporary audiences.  With bold innovations in casting, staging, and choreography, the OSF production differs in many ways from the 1943 …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dream-love-interpreting-dream-ballet-osfs-oklahoma/feed/ 0 The Horrors of the Dream Ballet in “Oklahoma!” https://bulkeley.org/horrors-dream-ballet-oklahoma/ https://bulkeley.org/horrors-dream-ballet-oklahoma/#respond Thu, 22 Feb 2018 01:02:30 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3557 A brilliant exploration of the dark psychological depths of sexual desire appears in an unlikely place—a country musical from the 1940’s. Oklahoma! was the first collaboration of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, the duo who went on to write many of Broadway’s most famous mid-century musicals.  A new production of Oklahoma! at the Oregon …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/horrors-dream-ballet-oklahoma/feed/ 0 Dark Times and the Powers of Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/dark-times-powers-dreaming/ https://bulkeley.org/dark-times-powers-dreaming/#respond Wed, 06 Sep 2017 21:46:48 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3437 I’ve been thinking a lot recently about a new book, Dreaming in Dark Times: Six Exercises in Political Thought, by Sharon Sliwinski, a professor at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Sliwinski approaches dreaming as a powerful resource for political theory and action, especially in times when basic human freedoms are most at risk. …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dark-times-powers-dreaming/feed/ 0 Dreaming Is Play: A New Theory of Dream Psychology https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-is-play-a-new-theory-of-dream-psychology/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-is-play-a-new-theory-of-dream-psychology/#respond Wed, 25 Jan 2017 01:58:51 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3198 The scientific study of dreams has fallen on hard times.  In an era dominated by cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychoactive drugs, and computer models of the mind, dreaming seems less relevant to psychology today than at any time since Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. The problem, ironically, is not a lack of empirical …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-is-play-a-new-theory-of-dream-psychology/feed/ 0 Beyond the Eclipse of Research on Big Dreams https://bulkeley.org/beyond-the-eclipse-of-research-on-big-dreams/ https://bulkeley.org/beyond-the-eclipse-of-research-on-big-dreams/#respond Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:40:56 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3109 On Friday, February 19, I will visit with C.G. Jung Society of Atlanta and give a talk on “Big dreams: Religion, science, and Jung’s theory of highly memorable dreams,” followed by a workshop on Saturday titled “Dreaming as Theater of the Psyche.” I wrote the following essay for the Society newsletter as a prelude to the talk and workshop. …

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