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combined in a dream. I dreamt of Freud sitting, leaning back relaxed in a chair, a smoking
cigar in one hand and addressing me. ‘It’s all there, you only have to look and see’ as he
leant forward and pointed me to fluorescent yellow highlighted passages from his Standard
Edition, then sitting back he smiled but faded from view leaving me with a sense of
anticipation and excitement. I was left with the thought that both the conscious and the
unconscious would feature in subsequent research and the methodologies adopted. This
linked to my knowledge of hermeneutics and Ricoeur’s ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’.
Ricoeur valued Freud as he saw beyond the surface text to the other text that lies below the
surface, like the unconscious, waiting to be discovered. Such concerns are further explored
in the following chapter on research methodology.
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