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Prelogical Experience An Inquiry into Dreams and Other Creative Processes
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One of the foundational texts of interpersonal psychoanalysis, Prelogical Experience (1959) is a pioneering attempt to elaborate an interpersonal theory of personality that encompasses the nonpropositional, nonverbal dimension of human experience. Prelogical processes, the authors hold, cannot be consigned to infancy; rather they shape experience throughout life and are especially salient... Read more
Introduction. The Prelogical Processes in Human Experience. Language, Symbols, and Scientific Method. The Creative Function of the Image. Symbolization and the Maturation Process. The Human Situation as Reflected in Perceptual Experience. Subthreshold Phenomena in the Perceptual Processes. Subthreshold Phenomena in Altered States of Consciousness. Extrasensory Perception. An Inquiry into the Therapist-Patient Relationship. Countertransference and Subthreshold Communication. Some Observations on Dreams and Dream Analysis. The Dream as a Message.
Biography
Edward S. Tauber, Maurice R. Green
"We might say that Prelogical Experience amounts to an interpersonalized ego psychology, a psychoanalytic way of thinking about mind that takes into account the influence of interpersonal relations on the structure of mind, and on what experience can be from one moment to the next. In this, Tauber and Green were continuing not only the emphasis of Fromm, but also that of Sullivan, whose concepts of selective inattention, dissociation, and the self-system were groundbreaking entries in the same set of observations."
- Donnel Stern, Ph.D., Author, Unformulated Experience (Analytic Press, 1997)
