TY - JOUR AU - Ruyneau de Saint George, Pierre PY - 2016/05/03 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Regarding affects and imagery in dreams JF - International Journal of Dream Research JA - ijodr VL - 9 IS - 1 SE - Commentaries DO - 10.11588/ijodr.2016.1.26386 UR - https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/26386 SP - 93-95 AB - <p class="BodyA">Focussing on the affects experienced in 118 dreams, the author puts forward a general principle of orneiric replay of secondary feelings that are real and barely mentalized. This could be a feeling of anxiety experienced in a dream when the “real” anxiousness it replays, that was provoked by a primary psychological “event”, resides in the background. An example of this is the barely anxious feeling that may surface when one is on the way to being devastated by a tormenting memory. The highly mentalized cognitive-affective stimulus (the tormenting memory) is symbolized by the oneiric image (such as a vicious dog).</p>This exploratory study corroborates the theory put forward by Hartmann (2001) in which the image of a dream seems to picture the emotion of the dreamer. ER -