Color in the dreams of the color-blind.
This paper attempts to illustrate how three color-blind patients utilized color in their dreams in such a manner as to actively deny their visual defect. These patients had displaced to the eyes some critical conflicts about other body parts. The use of color to deny color blindness thus further served to deny other physical defects, both real and imaginary. In addition, this defense helped to fend off intense affects related to these defects as well as associated castration anxieties.
D000328:Adult; D003118:Color Perception; D003117:Color Vision Defects / Q000523:psychology*; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D004325:Dreams; D005260:Female; D006677:Histrionic Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012173:Retinitis / Q000523:psychology; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology