Toward an Anthropology of the Will by Murphy Keith M.; Throop C. Jason;

Author:Murphy, Keith M.; Throop, C. Jason;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

Dreaming and the Dialectics of Self-Experiencing

In a series of provocative monographs, Christopher Bollas (1992, 1995) puts forward a model of the subjective elaboration of experience based on the claim that all experience represents this mutual interpenetration of subject and object—the creation of subjectified objects. A basic component of Bollas’s vision of human subjectivity and meaning-making is his bifurcation of the subject into two complementary selves: the “complex reflective self ” (CRS) of waking life and the “simple experiential self ” (SES) of immersive experience (1992, 17):

The simple experiencing self and the complex reflecting self enable the person to process life according to different yet interdependent modes of engagement: one immersive, the other reflective. When I am “in” the dream, although as a simple self I perceive dream objects, even more importantly I endure deep experiences there. Recollection and interpretation of the dream’s meaning do not necessarily address the essence of self experience gained by the simple self ’s movement through the events of the dream, but the complex self possesses a different psychic agenda: the aim of this position is to objectify as best as possible where one has been or what is meant by one’s actions. (Bollas 1992, 15; emphasis added)

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