I’ve been enjoying the podcast ‘Ordinary unhappiness’ hosted by Abby Kluchin and Patrick Blanchfield, an exploration of psychoanalysis and much more. In their latest episode, they discuss dreams and dream interpretation, but also raise a more basic question: why do we dream at all?
Sigmund Freud’s classic work, ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’, introduces a central idea: we dream in order to keep sleeping. Psychoanalytic theory is about conflict and the different sides of ourselves, and here too, in the area of dreams, there is a duality at play.