Sonho como reflexividade na sociologia onírica de Bernard Lahire

Abstract

Based on Bernard Lahire's sociological approach to dreams, as well as on its critical dialogue with Bourdieu's dispositionalist sociology, this article presents dreams as a form of reflexivity—an internal communication of subjectivity with itself regarding existential concerns experienced during waking life. Like other forms of reflexivity exercised by the awake subjectivity, from artistic self-expression to verbal reflections on the psychoanalytic couch, dreams constitute a "deferred elaboration" of existentially significant issues that had been activated by the individual’s prior experiences, but were insufficiently elaborated due to the intrusion of the "urgencies of practice" (Bourdieu) within her everyday social life.