Description
Book SynopsisThis monograph is the product of an interdisciplinary experiment--an artistic experiment and a psychological experiment--focused on dreams. Inspired by the prevalence of dream imagery and dream logic in surrealist art, the authors asked 100 art students to create digital images representing critical scenes from one of their dreams, then to create a surrealist collage from the digital images. The resulting collages tend to capture the surreality envisioned in actual works of surrealist art, as two collages included in the book illustrate. Inspired also by the psychological problem of studying other minds, the authors asked the 100 art students to describe their dream in writing, to interpret their dream, and to complete two personality measures: the Short Form of the Boundary Questionnaire and the Brief Symptom Inventory. The art students'' scores on particular personality scales were found to be statistically associated with particular dream aspects, many of which are visually observab
Table of ContentsAn Interdisciplinary Experiment on Dream Imagery
Experimental Methods
Artistic Experiment: Surrealism and the Boundaries between Subconscious Dreaming and Reality
Penetration of the Boundaries between Dream and Reality
Quest for Archetypal Manifestations of Subconscious Impulses
Use of Collage to Make Incongruities Compatible
Conclusions from the Artistic Experiment
Psychological Experiment: The Problem of Other Minds and the Visual Content of Dreams
Connections between Emotions Underlying a Dream and Visual Aspects of the Dream
Connections between Symptoms of Psychopathology and Visual Aspects of the Dream
Conclusions from the Psychological Experiment
Appendix with 100 Artists’ Verbal Descriptions, Interpretations, and Digital Images of Their Own Dreams
References
Index to Dreams
