title: Dreams. A developmental and longitudinal perspective.
abstract: In young children's dreams the infantile wish appears almost undisguised. Freud used this prototypical expression and representation of the infantile wish in a child's dream to bolster his conviction that the infantile wish was at the genetic root of adults' dreams as well. As development proceeds, a child's dream grows in disguise and complexity. This study of one analysand's dreams at age 5, 13, and 20 addresses the complexity from a longitudinal point of view and attempts to track the infantile wish through all of its developmental vicissitudes and disguises.
authors.affiliation: Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research, New York.
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Mahon
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004325:Dreams; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy