Слово.ру: балтийский акцент (Jun 2015)

Freud’s cognitive and linguistic insights in the theory of dream interpretation

  • Vasilyeva I.,
  • Tsvetkova A. S.

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 7 – 20

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This article stresses the theoretical ‘touching points’ of S. Freud’s theory of dream in¬terpretation and modern cognitive linguistics. The authors stress the relevance of such linguistic transformations as metaphor, metonymy, symbolisation, paronymy, homonymy, language game, and associative networks for Freud’s theory. Moreover, polysemy, initial context conditions, and the transfer of content from one coding into another — from the iconic image system into the symbolic conceptual one — also play an important role in dream interpretation. It is concluded that Freud anticipated key theoretical principles of modern cognitive linguistics.

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