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The Dream of Gerontius
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A Midsummer Nights Dream
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dream
dream mental activity associated with the rapid-eye-movement (REM) period of sleep. It is commonly made up of a number of visual images, scenes or thoughts expressed in terms of seeing rather than in those of the other senses or in words. Electroencephalograph studies, measuring the electrical... Read more |
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The American Dream
American Dream, The (1961), a one‐act play by Edward Albee. [York Playhouse, 370 perf.] Mommy ( Jane Hoffman) is a domineering middle‐class wife, and Daddy ( John C. Becher) is a henpecked, acquiescent husband, whose only son ( Ben Piazza) fails to live up to the dream they have... Read more |
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Morpheus
Morpheus , in Greek and Roman mythology, god of dreams. The son of Hypnos (or Somnus), the god of sleep, he brought dreams of human forms. His brothers Phobetor and Phantasos induced dreams of animals and inanimate objects, respectively.... Read more |
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Manifest
MANIFEST Manifest content is the narrative that the dreamer tells about his or her dream. In contemporary usage, the criterion manifest is also applied to other types of verbal production and to behaviors. Sigmund Freud contrasted manifest content to the latent dream thoughts brought out by... Read more |
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Latent
LATENT Latent dream thoughts (latent content) are the meanings psychoanalytic interpretation discovers in the manifest dream (the narrative the dreamer constructs of his dream). Freud introduced the contrast between manifest and latent in The Interpretation of Dreams (1900a), and he never... Read more |
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Dream Work
DREAM WORK Freud introduced the notion of "dream work" to clearly emphasize that the dream is not the result, as was generally thought to be the case, of a weakened state of mental activity producing incoherent fragments, but, on the contrary, the outcome of very complex psychic work. This was the... Read more |
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weber
weber [for W. E. Weber ], abbr. Wb, unit of magnetic flux in the mks system of weights and measures; 1 Wb is equal to 1 volt-second. The weber per square meter, called the tesla [for Nikola Tesla ], abbr. T, is the unit of magnetic flux density, which is a measure of the strength of a... Read more |
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Lillian Smith
Lillian Smith 1897-1966, American writer and social critic, b. Jasper, Fla. She was a social worker in Georgia for several years. Her bestselling novel Strange Fruit (1944) is set in the South and depicts the tragic love of a white boy for a black girl. Smith was active in the Congress of Racial... Read more |
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