How Has Sigmund Freud Impacted My Life

The “Royal Road to the unconscious” is a journey about dreams, interpretating them and questioning their purpose. Dreams occur every night, whether we remember them or not and we still question their true meaning – “it was just a dream”. Writers, poets and artists use daydreams and dreams as a way of expressing themselves, releasing their repressed feelings from their unconscious. This creativity allows psychoanalysis to work with their clients to understand the wish fulfilment and why they were repressed in the first instance. “In fact dreams are works of art, born of a compromise between the conscious and unconscious.

Still other scientists think that our dreams are a way of our conscious to deal with the problems of everyday life, and try to figure out solutions for things that are causing us a great deal of stress. Some dream experts even think that dreams are a sort of prophecy to us, and that they suggest things that will come. The only dream they have no idea how it works is the pipe dream. A pipe dream is a dream in which one is vain hoping, or telling a story. When experiencing dreams people visualize vivid clear images.

How Dreams Affect Reality In the works of Chester Himes there is an underlying theme of dreaming. Throughout his various stories Himes uses dreams to function as a retreat for his characters. In his short story “The Meanest Cop in the World”, Himes is able to concoct an entire story that is descriptive and lifelike, which the readers just assume is real. However, when the curtain is pulled back at the end and Himes tells the readers that the entire thing is just a dream the readers are shocked. Dreams have a very specific function in Himes’ stories as fantasies to keep the prisoner’s minds occupied.

According to psychoanalyst Carl Jung who understood universal patterns and images to be derived from our psychic existence, including thought patterns, dreams and arts. The protagonist, Robert Ross in Timothy Findley’s novel The Wars portrays characteristics of the archetypal hero when he undergoes a loss of innocence through the deaths, which propel him into “the underworld”; this is demonstrated as he embarks on a journey to find purpose and which he encounters the existential truth and after he is able to embrace the depths of life, he is then transformed by the experiences and returns back to “the ordinary

The psychoanalytic approach is interested in the unconscious mind. It states that it is the unconscious, while the ego is conscious. During the sleep, the id becomes dominant, and the id’s main motivation according to Freud’s work on the interpretation of dreams in 1900 which reveal our unconscious wishes and fantasies. Freud believed that dreams involve wish fulfilment, which means the wishes that have been thwarted in the reality. Psychoanalysts believe that only some thoughts are truly inaccessible.

Freud believed that content in the unconscious mind could be disturbing or harmful, so our brain protects us from these disturbing urges, impulses and thoughts by repressing them till they are released through dreams. Other dream theories suggest that dreams are simply there to interpret daily events, perceptions and possibly to retain memories. Possibly even to make different connections

This is the moment when we realized that to her it is not just a scary dream, these things happening in it are real, they are relatable and scarily accurate. A quote that makes us realize just how real a dream can be is when the author says "dreams are poems from the subconscious", because we start evaluating all the dreams we can remember. "Harvey 's dream" is a story so well written, I have no negative judgement towards it. Stephen King did a great job of showing both meanings of the story; the boring and decaying life of a married couple who stopped living, and the anxiousness of our nightmares becoming a reality. The author conveyed meaning and consistency thru the whole story, and we never got something that didn 't relate to the moral of it.

The id is an important unconscious structure that contains basic instinctual drives when we are born. Freud believed that the id is based on our pleasure principle. For example, a baby needs or wants something such as milk, the baby would

In “Dreamer” Rose express to the reader what dreams mean to her through the use of similes, metaphors, and imagery to paint a picture for the reader. Using these literary elements we can attain a clearer understanding of how dreams can be an escape from the world and its problems for some people. When faced with issues some people retreat into their safe haven, dreams, and dread going back to the real

In stage 3, the initiative vs guilt stage is the stage where children (3-5 years old) are said to be given the opportunity to explore their interpersonal skills through initiating activities and ask many questions as their thirst for knowledge grows. ("Erikson’s Stages of Development”) During this period, I would often play and think up role playing games (pretending to cook, playing doctor) and my parents would be rather supportive of me and would ask my brother to play with me. Also, I had a lot of questions about the way the world works and would often ask a lot of these questions to my parents. Despite not providing me with an answer sometimes, they however did commend me for actually broadening up my mind and urged me to look it up, reducing the feeling of guilt in me for bothering them. As a result of my parents acknowledging my passion to learn and me using my imagination, it contributed to me being an overall creative person with a vivid imagination.