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J. Allan Hobson (1933–2021)

Autore di Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction

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J. Allan Hobson is Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Fonte dell'immagine: Allan Hobson at his home in East Burke, Vermont. Credit: Metonyme

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“Freud, like his followers, religiously believed that dream bizarreness was a psychological defence against an unacceptable unconscious wish. This seemed unlikely to many people in 1900. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, it seems impossible to us.”
    This is a book about the biology of sleep and dreams—EEGs and neurotransmitters, rather than pop-psychology—and its author has little patience with the latter. It’s not just Freud though; throughout history people have concentrated on the content of dreams, for everything from medical diagnosis to fortune-telling, from religious prophesy to psychoanalysis, and Hobson isn’t saying that dreams have no meaning. What he is saying is that when you stop trying to read things into the content of dreams by “interpreting” specific details, and look at their form instead, you finally begin to get somewhere. And by “form” he means their more general features, the underlying characteristics shared by all dreams, as well as what the sleeping brain itself is doing while dreaming them.
    This of course means neuroscience, and Dreaming reads like a progress report of where this had got to by the 2000s. It covers: the eclipsing of psychology by biology; then brainwaves and the biochemistry of sleep; dream disorders; dreams and mental illness; dreaming, memory and learning; and he considers what dreaming might be for (there’s no evidence that the content of dreams has any significant influence on our waking behaviour for example). An interesting read, written in prose which is both clear and (particularly when talking about Sigmund Freud) lively.
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justlurking | 3 altre recensioni | Feb 11, 2024 |
I wish he'd picked more interesting dreams than his own to use as examples, and not used every opportunity to brag about how slutty he is... Other than that it's quite good. Free Berkeley dream lectures are better.
 
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RebeccaBooks | 3 altre recensioni | Sep 16, 2021 |
> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Hobson-Le-cerveau-revant/389434

> LE CERVEAU RÊVANT, de J. Allan Hobson. — L’a priori antipsychanalytique de cet ouvrage entraîne l’auteur à faire flèche de tout bois quand il s’attaque à la théorie freudienne, et ce n’est pas particulièrement à son honneur (mais c’est très à la mode aux U.S.A.). Encore a-t-il le mérite de s’en tenir aux arguments « techniques » alors que d’autres en utilisent de plus bas. Visant à détruire toute forme d’interprétation, qu’il semble redouter de manière hystérique (et pas seulement celle imaginée par Freud), l’auteur utilise près de 400 pages à montrer que le seul « travail » à l’oeuvre dans le rêve est en fait cette « élaboration secondaire » qui porte le rêve à la conscience de manière compréhensible. C’est du moins le rôle qui semble dévolu par Hobson à cette « synthèse » mise en oeuvre par un cerveau tout-puissant après son « réveil » (activation électrique) par le processus du sommeil paradoxal. Le projet est de réduire le rêve à une activité non seulement neuronale mais « végétative », et on saisit l’intérêt de cette démarche pour qui veut ôter au rêve toute implication psychique, et toute résonance psychologique. En fait, il ne s’agit de rien moins que de jeter le rêve à la poubelle neuro-sensorielle, et de le descendre tous les matins sur le trottoir, « en l’état ». Gallimard, 1992.
Revue Française de Yoga, (17), Janvier 1998
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