Immortality Wishes in Dreams
- December 5, 2018
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Works in Progress Seminar:
“Immortality Wishes in Dreams”
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
8:00 – 10:00 pm
Presenter: Arnold Richards, M.D.
This paper proposes that wishes for longevity and immortality should be added to Freud’s list of wish fulfillment (sexual and aggressive) in dreams. The author provides examples of his own dreams to support his thesis. The paper also maintains that the distinction between wish fulfillment and traumatic dreams is not as absolute as Freud maintains – traumatic dreams may also be wish fulfilling. The paper discusses how the child knowledge of death develops from early life on. The fear of immortality as well as the wish for immortality is considered.
No CME/CE credits offered.
Arnold Richards, M.D. is Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and is on the Faculty of the Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program and the Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China. He is a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute; the American Psychological Association, Division 39; the New York Freudian Society, and the Psychoanalytic Association of New York. He is also Honorary Member of the American Institute of Psychoanalysis/Karen Horney Clinic.
Dr. Richards served as editor of The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) from 1994 to 2003 and The American Psychoanalyst (TAP, newsletter of The American Psychoanalytic Association) for three years prior to that. He is currently editor of internationalpsychoanalysis.net and the publisher of ipbooks.net. Dr. Richards was the recipient of the Distinguished Contributor Award of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He was also winner of the Mary S. Sigourney Award (2000) and the Hans Loewald Awardee of the IFPE (2013). He is the author of Controversial Conversations: Selected papers of Arnold Richards, Volume 1, published by ipbooks, Perspectives on Thought Collectives, Selected papers of Arnold Richards, Volume 2, and numerous other books and papers.
Venue: NYPSI's Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium
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