The Mindbrain and Dreams

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Introduction -- How the mindbrain transforms the world -- The mindbrain creates its own version of the world -- Condensation, interobjects, and categories -- Displacement -- Metaphor -- Introduction -- Metaphor and bodily experience -- How metaphor helps us understand dreams -- Dream as allegory -- Dreams pictorialize metaphors -- Combined metaphors, modified metaphors, and mixed metaphors -- Nonlinguistic metaphor : music, visual arts, and advertising -- Synaesthesia and synkinesia -- Metaphoric mappings between concepts and our bodies -- Blending theory vs. cognitive metaphor theory -- Metaphors gone awry -- Metaphor and transference -- Metaphor and rebus -- Puns : linguistic and nonlinguistic -- Homoforms and homomelodies -- Metonymy -- Symbols -- Dreams and the mindbrain's structuring of experience -- Psychological defenses and dreams -- Working with dreams clinically -- New ways of working with dreams -- The dream guides its own analysis : how to work with dreams over time -- Group dream interpretation -- Dreams, knowledge, memory, emotion, and the mindbrain -- How neuropsychoanalysis and clinical psychoanalysis can learn from each other -- Elusive illusions : reality judgment and reality assignment in dreams and waking life -- When your mindbrain knows things that you don't -- Memory, knowledge, and dreams -- Language of thought and the wakingwork -- List of dreams -- References