O Sonhar social: uma experiência no Brasil / Social dreaming: an experience in Brazil

A matriz do sonhar social é um dispositivo criado com a finalidade de apreender o significado social dos sonhos. Buscamos avaliar sua aplicação no contexto brasileiro e cogitamos sobre suas potencialidades em processos de intervenção psicológica. Foram realizados encontros de compartilhamento de sonhos com dois grupos: 14 profissionais de gestão de pessoas de uma instituição financeira nacional e seis psicólogos formandos e recém-formados de uma universidade pública federal. Utilizamos a técnica de observação participante e questionários de avaliação de reação, procedendo à avaliação qualitativa das informações. Constatamos a aplicabilidade do dispositivo e formulamos hipótese sobre a utilização da matriz em intervenção psicológica.

The social dreaming matrix is a device created for the purpose of grasping the social meaning of dreams. We tried to evaluate its application in the context of Brazil and theorized about its potential in processes of psychological intervention. Meetings were held to share dreams with two groups: 14 human management professionals of a national financial institution and six trainees and graduates in Psychology of a federal public university. The information gathered with the technique of participant observation and reaction evaluating questionnaires was interpreted using qualitative methods. The applicability of the device was verified and a hypothesis was formulated about the use of the matrix in psychological intervention.

O sonho na clínica de casal / The dream in couple therapy

O presente artigo trata a questão do sonho na clínica de casal como recurso técnico de análise, para a elaboração de um material traumático. O sonho é compreendido por Freud como uma atividade intrapsíquica e representante de um conteúdo recalcado sobre um desejo inconsciente. No entanto, sob a teoria de René Kaës acerca da polifonia do sonho, este ganha função compartilhada, cujo processo está presente na dimensão intersubjetiva de um grupo, de uma família e, no caso deste estudo, de um casal. Não só o conteúdo do sonho, mas a atividade realizada pelo pré-consciente do casal aponta dados relevantes numa investigação clínica. O vínculo conjugal compreende um campo fértil em que atividades psíquicas, como projeções e identificações, aparecem com mais intensidade e são compartilhadas no ato de sonhar. Fragmentos de um caso clínico de casal mostram como o sonho pode ser uma maneira de compreender a intersubjetividade presa ao material recalcado.

This paper deals with the question of the dream in couple therapy, taken as a technical resource for analysis, in the elaboration of a traumatic material. The dream is understood by Freud as an individualized work, representative of repressed content related to a forbidden wish. However, the dream, under the theory of René Kaës about its polyphony, gains a shared function when present in the intersubjective dimension of a group, family and, in the case of this study, of a couple. Not only the dream content, but the work carried out by the pre-conscious as well, reveals relevant data for clinical investigation. The marital link comprises a fertile ground in which psychological activities, such as projections and identifications, appear with more intensity, and are shared in dreaming. Fragments of a couple clinical case show how the dream can be a way of understanding intersubjectivity that is bound to repressed material.

Analysis of Most Recent Dream Content Korean Early Adolescents by Hall/Van de Castle System / 수면정신생리

OBJECTIVES: It has been known that the contents of dreams change according to neuro-developmental differences in sex, progression of age and various environments, unlike the established psychoanalytic theory. To investigate the changes, we collected "most recent dream report" and analyzed the contents of dreams by using Hall/Van de Castle System. METHOD: Most recent dream reports were gathered from age 12-14 years old, 2,673 middle school students (1,544 male 1,129 female) and analyzed those reports using Hall/Van de Castle System. The data were sorted in SAS and dream SAT. RESULT: There were prominent differences between male and female middle school students in Male/Female Percentage (male/female; 56%/35%), Familiarity Percentage (57%/69%), Aggression/Friendliness Percentage (79%/65%), Befriender Percentage (50%/33%), Physical Aggression Percentage (90%/70%), Indoor Setting Percentage (40%/55%), Negative Emotion Percentage (56%/68%) and Torso/Anatomy Percentage (51%/36%). There were significant differences in Male/Female Percentage (65%/44%), Friendliness, Physical Aggression and Self Negativity Percentage in male and there were significant differences in Friendliness, Familiarity and Friends Percent in female between 1st and 2nd grade. But, it showed much similar dream patterns between 2nd and 3rd grade in both gender. In male, Aggression/Character Index with male character is significantly increased by 2nd grade (1st/ 2nd/ 3rd; 0.48/1.04/0.98), In female, Friendliness/Character Index with male character had significantly decreased by 2nd grade (0.38/0.19/0.20). CONCLUSION: There were apparent differences between age 12-14 years old male and female. Male adolescents have differences mostly in categories related with aggression, but female adolescents have differences in categories related with environment or character. It shows that developmental level of male are slower than female as of yet and male needs more active interpersonal relationship to find identity. Otherwise, the influences of passive attitude and actual circumferential environment are reflected in female's dream. There are no prominent differences among ages, but age 12-13 years old adolescents shows significant differences in interacting with the other gender. It means that circumferential environment and interpersonal relationship affect the contents of dreams and also the cognitive development related to age and sex. Afterwards, the development of dreams could be better understood through the neurocognitive study and dream analysis between other ages and nations.

Dream Content Analysis of Koreans in Their Twenties Using Hall/Van de Castle System / 수면정신생리

OBJECTIVES: In the past, latent dreams were emphasized in the psychiatric field, but these days the interest in manifest dreams is increasing as ego psychology develops. Hall and Nordby proposed that there are similarities between manifest dreams and real life. The Hall/Van de Castle System is a method of dream content analysis, which considers both the quantitive and qualitive analytic aspects of manifest dreams. METHODS: The dreams of 232 males and females (M: F=127: 105; mean age=21.02.7) were collected through the Most Recent Dream Method. Collected data were analyzed using the Hall/Van de Castle System. RESULTS: Female subjects tended to be more detailed and meticulous in reporting their dreams. The dreams of male subjects showed a higher percentage in self-negativity (2=6.64, df=1, p=0.004), and the dreams of female subjects showed a higher percentage in group character (2=6.64, df=1, p=0.0099), dreamer-involved success (2=3.12, df=1, p=0.048), and good fortune (2=4.52, df=1, p=0.034). CONCLUSION: This study suggests the norm of dream content of Korean college students, and it presents the differences between Korean males and females, and between Korean college students and American college students. This study may contribute to further studies on dream content analysis.