Dreamwork: The meaning of the dream is the function of the dream

Question 1

What do dream symbols do

Answer 1

Censor distasteful things

Question 2

What does Freud argues happens to some dreams that are harmful

Answer 2

Freud argues that some dreams are simply too harmful to even try and make sense of, so the superego actively erases dreams as soon as you wake, protecting the conscious mind.
This explains why the majority of dreams are difficult to recall

Question 3

What is manifest content

Answer 3

What we remember

Question 4

What is latent content

Answer 4

The true content of the dream

Question 5

Catharsis

Answer 5

Put stuff ‘latent content’ to rest.
The purpose of dream analysis is to uncover emotions and put them to rest.

Question 6

What is dreamwork

Answer 6

process of transforming latent content into manifest content

Freud called the transformation of unconscious desire into manifast sybolism the ‘dream work’
Freud believed that the superego, in an effort to protect the fragile ego from the disturbing desires of the id, used a number of defense mechanisms during dream work