The animist dream

Abstract

In this essay I articulated and compared the dream as understood by psychoanalysis with animistic dream practices, interrogating the freudian idea of the dream’s navel, mostly, the status of the image: are they representations of the dreamer’s ego or spirits? Repressed childhood desires or the desires of others? At the end, It is considered a possible translated between the point of view (in perspectivism) and the life pulsion by psychoanalysis, active resistance or alliance with non-humans in shamanism and a pragmatic’s clinical of desire fulfillment.