1.2.2 Dreams As Wish Fullfillment (PD) Flashcards
What did Freud suggest all dreams represent?
Wish fulfilment, they express repressed ideas, desires and thoughts
What did Freud base his third of dreams as wish fulfilment on?
His own dream of a patient he called irma
What was the context of Freud’s
dream?
- had been treating Irma in summer of 1896
- proposed treatment irma refused
- irmas treatment ended before it was complete
In his dream where did Freud meet irma and what did he do?
- met irma at party
* examined irma with another doctor
What was Freuds analysis of the dream?
- dream was wish fulfilment
- his wish was he wasn’t responsible for irmas failed recovery
- concluded the motive of the dream was a wish and its content wish fulfilment
What did Freud later discover about irma?
• Freud later heard she was “ better but not quite well”
What did Freud see flash before his eyes in his dream?
A chemical formula for a drug another doctor had given irma
What did Freud discover in the dream?
Irmas failed recovery was caused by a dirty syringe another doctor had used
This Freuds guilt was relieved