(1960). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 29:263-264 Review by: H. Robert Blank This major contribution to the phenomenology of dreams of the blind constitutes a summary of the author's clinical experience and explorations in the graphic and musical arts, literature, philosophy, and religion. The psychoanalyst will find stimulation on almost every page. Of unusual interest are five reproductions of drawings and paintings illustrating dreams of the blind, and a musical analysis of the treatment of dreams of the blind in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, Moussorgsky's Boris Godunoff, and d'Albert's Die toten Augen. Dreams in the polar night—vivid wish-fulfilling visual dreams and anxiety dreams resulting from living in prolonged darkness and in a generally monotonous environment—are similar to dreams of the blind. There is also an instructive discussion of dreams of patients with organic brain disease whose vision itself is not affected but who have serious disturbances in visual memory and apperception. Unfortunately the monograph has serious sho [This is a summary or excerpt from the full text of the book or article. The full text of the document is available to subscribers.] |
