B1a1 Freud's (1900) Dream Theory

Question 1

Latent content

Answer 1

The meaning underlying the dream. If the symbols from the manifest content are translated by an analyst, they can reveal unconscious thoughts

Question 2

Condensation

Answer 2

When many thoughts and elements from the unconscious are represented in the dream in one symbol

Question 3

Displacement

Answer 3

When something that seems unimportant in the dream is made central, to shift attention from what is really important

Question 4

Secondary elaboration

Answer 4

How the dreamer builds a story when telling what the dream is about, adding to and changing things, which makes analysis hard

Question 5

Freud’s dreamwork

Answer 5

What the mind is doing whilst dreaming- keeping unconscious thoughts hidden and repressed

Question 6

Manifest content

Answer 6

What the dream is said to be about by the dreamer- the story the dreamer tells

Question 7

Who’s Freud?

Answer 7

A docor living in Vienna in Austria, who thought that dreaming was ain important part of a peron’s life because a person’s unconcious wishes and desires could be understood

Question 8

Dreamwork- Freud

Answer 8

What the mind is doing whilst dreaming- keeping unconcious thoughts hiddem amd repressed–> protect person