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The article presents the basic cognitive-theoretic assumptions and procedures of the documentary analysis of narrative-biographical interviews. There is a particular attention paid to the possibility of combining different analytical perspectives including sequential analysis “along” the text and dialogic “across” the text. Also, the basic trips of premature over-interpretation of the narrative-biographical text are to be discussed. The structure of the article corresponds to the typical stages of the documentary interpretation proposed by Ralf Bohnsack. The reader learns the typical phases of the analysis on the example of the interview with a special educator and foster parent in one person. The interpretation focuses on a new model of the pedagogical professionalism blurring the boundaries between professional and family biography.
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A presentation of discoveries pertaining to dreams initiated by the psychoanalytical studies concerning dreams, conducted at the turn of the nineteenth century by Freud, and in numerous instances confirmed today by neurophysiological research. In Poland, the pioneer of psychological investigations concerning dreams was the outstanding Julian Ochorowicz, whose manner of comprehending the significance of the dream was close to Freud’s findings. Upon the basis of examples provided by literature the author proposed metaphysical conceptions of the dream, whose ancient lineage is to be found in the history of culture, the metaphysical conception of dreams as well as psychological notions – precursors of the discoveries made by the author of psychoanalysis. An exemplification of classical psychoanalytical methods of understanding the meaning of dreams is an analysis of the so-called St. Petersburg dreams experienced by Mickiewicz, who considered them to be prophetic; at the same time, the article demonstrates the source of the allegedly visionary nature of this particular dream.
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