Understanding

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Understanding of Dreams.
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A Review (the id, ego and Super Ego)

• Conscious and preconscious (some) level is your
  ego
• Preconscious and Unconscious is your id
• Super Ego works at every level

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According to Freud, dreams were disguised,
hallucinatory fulfilment of repressed wishes.
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He also asserted that dreams not only represented
current wishes,
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but were also invariably expressions of
wish-fulfilments dating from early childhood.
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Dreams, he believed, gave indirect expressions to
infantile sexual wishes which had been repressed
and which,
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if expressed in undisguised form, would so
disturb the dreamer that he would wake up.
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Because these wishes are unacceptable and
potentially disturbing, they are censored and
disguised.
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Freud described the mental processes, or
dream-work, by which the dream was modified and
rendered less disturbing.
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These processes included
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Condensation, the fusing together of different
ideas and images into a single image
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Displacement, in which a potentially disturbing
image or idea is replaced by something connected
but less disturbing
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Representation, the process by which thoughts are
converted into visual images
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Symbolization, in which some neutral object
stands for some aspect of sexual life or those
persons connected with it which the dreamer would
prefer not to recognize.
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Freud introduced the term manifest content to
describe what the dreamer recalled.
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In contrast, the latent content was the hidden,
true meaning of the dream.
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This latent content could be ascertained only
when the dreamers associations to the images in
the dream had been subjected to psychoanalytical
scrutiny and interpretation.
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There were many other forms of dreams e.g.
traumatic dreams, anxiety dreams etc.
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For Homework

• Review your Dream Chart and Notes
• Complete a RAFT
• Role Sigmund Freud
• Audience James Fowler
• Format Pub Argument
• Topic What should we make of the Golden Carp?