LEITE, Therezinha Moreira. Time in the dream elaboration. []. , 37, 93, pp.312-321. ISSN 1415-711X.

The theme is related to two basic questions: the concept of time and the evidence of mental work characteristic of dream consciousness, in wakefulness, and during sleep. Regarding this latter aspect, take into account the continued subliminal psychic performance characterizing what we can call thought, especially of primary order, but thought. As pointed out by Freud in his work on dreams, and already quoted earlier by artists and poets, it would be at the basis of dream elaboration during the night and of the achievements and behaviors at times of awakeness. In this panorama, it seems to us that the nocturnal dream usually reveals, more especially than other psychic formations, that subjective time that is constituted by the psychic articulation along with the continuous action in the surrounding world, also in its continuous movement. Following Freud's statement, the metaphors and symbols indicate the content and the meaning, related to judgments, evaluations, apperceptions, affirmations, as in general thought, and at the level of a predominantly affective logic. In the dream, the subversion of the temporal order in the narration of the story (history) seems to be incongruous, full of truth, but constituting a period of action and acting of its own, as observed in the passage of its content to the story

: dream; subjective time; dream process; affective logic.

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