West, Marcus

• Series Preface -- An overview of dreaming -- A brief outline of Freud's views on dreams -- A brief outline of Jung's views on dreams -- The language of dreams: the symbolic and the unconscious -- Unlocking the network of associations: the objective, subjective, transference, and archetypal levels of dreams -- Beginning work with a dream -- Exploring some of the basics . . . and not so basics -- Dream architecture: signs and symbols -- The position of the “I”: death, violence, marriage, sex, gender, toilets, time, and location -- The initial dream -- The Wolf-Man’s dream: contrasting Freudian and Jungian approaches -- Recent developments in understanding dreams and dreaming: dream laboratories and the neuroscience of dreams -- Other dreams -- Final thoughts: twenty-first-century dreaming