Scientists have developed many theories about the purpose behind dreaming. So many, however, that scientists and the scientific community are greatly divided on what theory is more likely to one day be fact. With the current inability to even narrow down the theories, let alone prove one, scientists continue to argue their points about these theories. A popular theory on why dreams occur is the Psychoanalytic Theory of Dreams developed by Sigmund Freud. Freud 's theory states that dreams are a representation of thoughts, wants, and needs (Cherry).
Dreams are exquisite phenomenons that can often be analyzed to help you realize new things in the conscious state. The subject for this study is a 15 year old female who is 5’ 6” and weighs approximately 130 lbs. The dreams being analyzed are mostly connected to her daily life recently. Throughout the study, she thought about her dreams and realized that there were subtle symbols that could be compared to events in her daily life. The following paper shows the analysis of three of her 15 dreams from over the course of the week.
Mary Shelley used her vivid knowledge of dreams and depicted Frankenstein as being shameful and frustrated that he created a monster. Frankenstein’s emotions about the murders weigh on his conscious and emerge in his dreams. Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory gives insight into why people are the way they are and the decisions they make every day. He explains how the events people go through greatly affect how they run out in adulthood. Mary Shelley’s book paints a very vivid picture through a psychological aspect of Victor Frankenstein.
It appears that we are just scratching the surface when it comes to dreams, the reasons why we dream, and the meanings of these dreams. Bibliography Freud, Sigmund, and Joyce Crick. The Interpretation of Dreams. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999.
Throughout the literary novel Autumn by Ali Smith published in 2017, there is an immense amount of material to interpret about Daniel’s personality and unconscious desires by psychoanalyzing his dreams and fantasies. Daniel is a 101-year-old man who regresses into his past with multiple dreams throughout this story that give deeper meaning and detail to the main characterization. Throughout these dreams, Daniel has recollections of how his life used to be and how he possibly wishes it could be while in the state he is in. In the book Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, he states that “all dreams represent the fulfillment of a wish on the part of the dreamer and maintains that even anxiety dreams and nightmares are expressions of unconscious
He believed dreams were a “natural product of the psyche”, that they did not need interpretation by the therapist as they portrayed the “true nature” of the unconscious. Dreams had a prospective and a compensatory purpose, i.e. it helped prepare for events to come and it tried to bring about a balance between the conscious and unconscious. Unlike Freud, Jung focused on where the dreams lead and not on where and when it had
“The interpretation of Dreams”, published in 1900, is considered the fist psychoanalytic work by Freud. It is based on Freud’s studies about dreams, which are, according to him, the “royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.” For Freud, dreams represent “a disguised fulfillment of a repressed wish.” They have a manifest content, which is the conscious experience during the sleep, and also a latent content, considered unconscious. The latter is composed of three elements: the sensory impressions during the night (for example, the feeling of thirst during sleep), the day’s residues (register of the events of the previous day) and the id instinctual drives (related to sexual or aggressive fantasies).
Sigmund Freud did not use the term signifier in relation to his work with the Rat Man. However, it was through this case, and its subsequent revisiting by Jacques Lacan, that we came to develop a more thorough understanding of how the unconscious mind works and in turn, the role that signifiers play, both in facilitating the creation of a condition, and in its eventual treatment. The Rat Man, is a name that Sigmund Freud attributed to one of his case studies in order to protect the individual’s true identity. This patient sought Freud’s help in dealing with neuroses and anxieties which he felt had been restricting him from properly engaging with life, including fears that something will happen to his father or the woman he loves.
Cowgil describes Jung’s work as therapy that deals with dreams and fantasies and death. The rising and land of the dead represent the unconscious self and the foreground for collective unconscious theory. This is an unconscious that “[could contain] all the dead, not just our personal ghosts” (Boerre 1). The contents of the collective unconscious are called archetypes and they contain many different levels: shadow,
4). After writing the first essay about psychoanalysis, they published Studies on Hysteria in 1895. As a result of his dreams, Freud started to think unconscious mind which led Freud to write The Interpretation of Dreams in 1901 (Blundell, 2014). According to Freud, dreams are associated with the hidden feelings and earlier experiences (Mitchell et al., 1995). He also found free association technique and stopped to practice hypnosis (Blundell, 2014).
They both agreed on the belief of the unconscious mind but greatly disagreed on its role in a dream. Although they worked closely alongside each other, Jung does not believe that the unconscious is as primative or sexual but instead he views it as spiritual, with a very much more down to earth approach. He set out to explore his theory and began a new study, separate from Frued. Jung stated that dreams are how we familiarize ourselves with our unconscious (Hurd). Through our dreams the unconscious part of us can communicate with our waking life, unlike Frued that saw the unconscious just driving us toward desires.
The topic of research described and investigated in this paper is the analysis of a personal dream through different perspectives. I will discover the different meanings of my dream, depending on what perspective I am using. Within this paper, I will retell a vivid but short dream about an assignment that I have to finish in my AP Language and Composition class. This assignment I must complete in my dream exists in the real world, with it being due the same day as this paper. I will then proceed to endeavour into the first perspective, the Psychoanalytic View.
In his theory of dissociation he stated that: “The nature of conscious activity, especially partial automatism in which a part of one's personality is split off from self-awareness and follows an autonomous subconscious development”. Janet’s theory of the subconscious can be compared to Freud’s theory which is: “the unconscious mind governs behavior to a greater degree than people suspect”. Although there’re differences in the two theories, the main idea still remains, that the subconscious mind comprises thoughts inaccessible to the consciousness but to some extent, affect our behaviours personalities. Carl Jung (1953) also arrived at the same theory as Freud regarding the subconscious mind . However, there is a major difference between Jung and Freud’s model of the unconsciousness.
Today I first discussed when dream occurs. Second, I discussed theories of dream. Finally, I discussed the dream interpreter. Understanding when dream occurs, theories of dream and what they mean help us grasp what dreams actually
Carl Jung refers to the human psyche as both the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. He believes that the conscious attitudes within one’s mind are ideally balanced with the unconscious attitudes. The unconscious expresses ideas through dreams, imagery, fantasies, slips of the tongue and various other involuntary acts (Snowden 56). Jung expressed a varied perspective when it came to the components of the psyche. He divided the psyche intro three components, the conscious, the personal unconscious and the collective
