Paul Ricoeur suggests, in fact, that dream interpretation is in some sense a paradigm case of the interpretation of agents’ desires: “f dream interpretation can stand as the paradigm for all interpretation it is because dreams are in fact the paradigm of all the strategems of desire” (Ricoeur, 1970, p. This includes the interpretation of intentional action (Hopkins, 1991) and the interpretation of texts, such as poems, and other artworks. Psychoanalytic dream interpretation is arguably not unlike more commonplace instances of interpretation in which the interpreter seeks out what the agent of meaning may desire “beneath” the surface of what is presented. Psychoanalysis takes human desire as its starting point – and in the history of the discipline, dreams have played a fundamental role in the exploration of desire. Introduction to “The Interpretation of Dreams” Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (pdf) (Ch.
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