The idea that the dream content consists initially of the various sensory impressions received by the sleeper during sleep, together with the worries of the previous day, and exciting experiences mainly of the recent past. Freud argues that to this content repressed trends or wishes from the unconscious tend to attach themselves, but in order to evade the censorship, and fulfill the function which is to fulfill the wish to sleep
The dream work is a special case of the effects produced by two different mental groupings on each other-that is, of the consequences of mental splitting; and it seems identical in all essentials with the process of distortion which transforms the repressed complexes into symptoms where there is unsuccessful repression."(Richard Osborne, Freud for Beginners)
The Origin of Dreams
¤Recent events and obvious emotional facts-like being made angry. Revenge is obtained in the dream-simple wish fulfillment.
¤Many ideas blended together by the dream, otherwise known as condensation.
¤Displacement: an important event may be represented by a recent but unimportant memory. Free association uncovers the links.
¤Long-buried memories represented by recent trivial ideas-deep displacement which only psychoanalysis can uncover.
A dream is a fulfilled wish. "The dream is the disguised fulfillment of a forbidden or repressed wish after all."
The Dream Machine
Freud discovers that the hidden wish in dreams is often of a sexual nature in adults. The function of dreams is to discharge the tensions of repressed and forbidden wishes.
The Mechanisms of the Dream Work:
The mechanisms of the dream work are-
(1) Condensation:
Term used to describe partial fusion of two or more ideas, occurring particularly in dreams, and producing a characteristic type of distortion, illustrated by such works as "treaty of Breast-Litovsk"
One image can stand for many associations.. The complexity of the latent content of a dream can therefore be derived from analyzing how repressed ideas,old ideas, unrecognized ideas and unthought-out associations connect up with the condensed image that is at the forefront of the dream. The way that a single idea or event can simultaneously represent different impulses Freud calls "over-determination".
(2) Displacement:
General sense, transfer of an object from one place to another:the shifting of affect from one item to another to which it does not really belong, particularly in a dream.
Feelings related to one thing are connected to a different one; for example, the murderous feeling about the sister-in-law are displaced onto the little white dog in the example of a lady who strangled a dog in dream!
(3) Dramatization:
Dreams are of course, almost wholly visual, rather like a film. Like some bad films there often seems to be little connection between the events and images in a dream. However, as they say, every picture tells a story. In dreams, the story is hidden, and the visuals are the clue.
(4) Symbolization:
Images stand in for, or symbolize, other things. Phallic symbols, such as guns, tall round building etc. are now widely recognized(interestingly). Dreams make great use of symbols. Freud said, "in dreams, symbols are used almost exclusively for the expression of sexual objects and relations".
(5) Secondary Elaboration:
When someone wakes up they recall their dream and start to think about what it means. This starts with an interpretation, which can take you further away from the latent content.
In summary, we can say that dreams are distorted, disguised versions of hidden and repressed wishes. They are what the conscious mind gets as a report of what is going on in the unconscious, only through a scrambler.
If Freud is right about dreams, and surely is, then the interpretation of dreams is conclusive evidence of the existence of the unconscious. What else this proves is more difficult to analyze. The way in which Freud understood the role of symbols in dreams, their ability to carry other meanings, profoundly affects our understanding of modern culture.
The dream work is a special case of the effects produced by two different mental groupings on each other-that is, of the consequences of mental splitting; and it seems identical in all essentials with the process of distortion which transforms the repressed complexes into symptoms where there is unsuccessful repression."(Richard Osborne, Freud for Beginners)
The Origin of Dreams
¤Recent events and obvious emotional facts-like being made angry. Revenge is obtained in the dream-simple wish fulfillment.
¤Many ideas blended together by the dream, otherwise known as condensation.
¤Displacement: an important event may be represented by a recent but unimportant memory. Free association uncovers the links.
¤Long-buried memories represented by recent trivial ideas-deep displacement which only psychoanalysis can uncover.
A dream is a fulfilled wish. "The dream is the disguised fulfillment of a forbidden or repressed wish after all."
The Dream Machine
Freud discovers that the hidden wish in dreams is often of a sexual nature in adults. The function of dreams is to discharge the tensions of repressed and forbidden wishes.
The Mechanisms of the Dream Work:
The mechanisms of the dream work are-
(1) Condensation:
Term used to describe partial fusion of two or more ideas, occurring particularly in dreams, and producing a characteristic type of distortion, illustrated by such works as "treaty of Breast-Litovsk"
One image can stand for many associations.. The complexity of the latent content of a dream can therefore be derived from analyzing how repressed ideas,old ideas, unrecognized ideas and unthought-out associations connect up with the condensed image that is at the forefront of the dream. The way that a single idea or event can simultaneously represent different impulses Freud calls "over-determination".
(2) Displacement:
General sense, transfer of an object from one place to another:the shifting of affect from one item to another to which it does not really belong, particularly in a dream.
Feelings related to one thing are connected to a different one; for example, the murderous feeling about the sister-in-law are displaced onto the little white dog in the example of a lady who strangled a dog in dream!
(3) Dramatization:
Dreams are of course, almost wholly visual, rather like a film. Like some bad films there often seems to be little connection between the events and images in a dream. However, as they say, every picture tells a story. In dreams, the story is hidden, and the visuals are the clue.
(4) Symbolization:
Images stand in for, or symbolize, other things. Phallic symbols, such as guns, tall round building etc. are now widely recognized(interestingly). Dreams make great use of symbols. Freud said, "in dreams, symbols are used almost exclusively for the expression of sexual objects and relations".
(5) Secondary Elaboration:
When someone wakes up they recall their dream and start to think about what it means. This starts with an interpretation, which can take you further away from the latent content.
In summary, we can say that dreams are distorted, disguised versions of hidden and repressed wishes. They are what the conscious mind gets as a report of what is going on in the unconscious, only through a scrambler.
If Freud is right about dreams, and surely is, then the interpretation of dreams is conclusive evidence of the existence of the unconscious. What else this proves is more difficult to analyze. The way in which Freud understood the role of symbols in dreams, their ability to carry other meanings, profoundly affects our understanding of modern culture.
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