Freud's Dream: semiotic of the oneiric discourse

Abstract

The author uses the most important dream analyzed in the Freudian Interpretation of Dreams, the Irma's injection dream, to support the idea that the creator of psychoanalysis has in this text inaugurated a "semiotic" understanding, avant la lettre, of the arduous question of sense. In face of the manner in which Freud arranged his method of dream interpretation, he sustains that the Lacanian analyses of this particular dream deserve remarks. According to the author they lack a broader discussion on the Freudian question of the accumulation of different meanings in this dream; they also resent the inexistence, back then, of a dialog between psychoanalysis and the theories that have the sense as their main object of investigation (discourse theories and semiotics). It is stated that the reasons of this deficit may be charged on the way Lacanian and post-lacanian psychoanalysis have conducted the concept of sense, gradually disregarded and abandoned, if not openly excluded from their current cogitations.