TY - JOUR
T1 - Spatial Translation and Regression in Dreams
T2 - The Nicholas Young Phenomenon
AU - Balter, Leon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 by the American Psychoanalytic Association.
PY - 2018/8/1
Y1 - 2018/8/1
N2 - The Nicholas Young phenomenon involves an immediate shift in dreams to more regressive mental functioning whenever, in the manifest ideational content, the dreamer or protagonist crosses a topographical boundary or threshold (spatial translation). This phenomenon thus furthers the regression typical in dreams. Eight examples of the Young phenomenon are presented. An attempt to explain this highly specialized phenomenon addresses dreams in series, or dream sections in series, and refers to Scherner’s Law, which covers their sequential trend toward regression. Referring to the mind’s self-observing capacity, Silberer’s “symbolism of the threshold” is invoked to explain the spatial translation of the Young phenomenon.
AB - The Nicholas Young phenomenon involves an immediate shift in dreams to more regressive mental functioning whenever, in the manifest ideational content, the dreamer or protagonist crosses a topographical boundary or threshold (spatial translation). This phenomenon thus furthers the regression typical in dreams. Eight examples of the Young phenomenon are presented. An attempt to explain this highly specialized phenomenon addresses dreams in series, or dream sections in series, and refers to Scherner’s Law, which covers their sequential trend toward regression. Referring to the mind’s self-observing capacity, Silberer’s “symbolism of the threshold” is invoked to explain the spatial translation of the Young phenomenon.
KW - Herbert Silberer
KW - Scherner’s Law
KW - dream series
KW - regression
KW - threshold symbolism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85053938698&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0003065118797137
DO - 10.1177/0003065118797137
M3 - Article
C2 - 30249134
AN - SCOPUS:85053938698
SN - 0003-0651
VL - 66
SP - 619
EP - 645
JO - Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
JF - Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
IS - 4
ER -