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This 5 page paper discusses this historic and ground-breaking book by Freud. The writer provides specific examples of dreams Freud considered to be typical as well as a brief list of symbolic objects found in dreams and what they mean.
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research study is written today. He began with an overview of different philosophers who had studied dreams in the past and was, in fact, influenced greatly by their work. Freud
believed that dreams were the road to the unconscious and that dreaming is the activity of the mind during sleep which leads to the conclusion that the mind is never
still, always in some form of activity although that activity differs between sleep and awake times. Freud called dreams the "kingdom of the illogical." Freud went against popular thinking of
the day when he wrote that dreams have meaning but the meaning may not be apparent or even come from the dream itself. Freud also believed it was critical to
interpret ones own dreams and to demonstrate his point, he offered interpretations of some of his own dreams. * Dreams are analyzed in terms of components which include: * _ An
unconscious wish that is the real motivating power for the dream * Rejection of the unconscious wish by an agency in the consciousness Freud called the Censor. * Compromise-Formation
which falls between the unconscious wish and the rejection of it. * The Censor uses different techniques to distort the unconscious wish so that it can become acceptable to the
conscious mind. * _ The kinds of wishes that are fulfilled in dreams and why they are forbidden in consciousness. * _ Dreams and dream wishes are universal, i.e., they are common
to all people in all times and in all locations. Freud noted that it was impossible to interpret someone elses dreams unless the
dreamer shared with the analyst the unconscious thought "which lie behind the dream-content." This restricted his method of dream interpretation. There are, however, a number of typical dreams which
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