Dynamic interpretation of dreams

Question 1

The recovering of a suppressed feeling, often through hypnosis

Answer 1

Abreaction

Question 2

Freud’s term for patients who were unable to remember significant memories

Answer 2

Resistance

Question 3

Later model Freud pursued after abreaction, where patients were allowed to ‘speak their mind’ freely

Answer 3

Free association

Question 4

Two layers of dream content described by Freud

Answer 4

Manifest content

Latent content

Question 5

Type of dream content described by Freud which was what was recalled by the dreamer

Answer 5

Manifest content

Question 6

Type of dream content described by Freud which included unconscious thoughts and wishes

Answer 6

Latent content

Question 7

The idea that several unconscious impulses or ideas are combined into a singe object/scenario in a dream

Answer 7

Condensation

Question 8

The idea that in a dream multiple objects or situations can all represent one unconscious idea

Answer 8

Irradiation/diffusion

Question 9

The idea that in a dream energy can be focussed on a symbolic representation of an object instead of the object itself

Answer 9

Displacement

Question 10

The idea that in a dream a highly charged wish or object could be represented by an innocent object that was in some way connected

Answer 10

Symbolic representation

Question 11

Type of thinking within dreams that can accept contradictory ideas, and does not require logic or a sense of time or place

Answer 11

Primary process thinking

Question 12

Conversion of types of content in dreams

Answer 12

Latent content converted into manifest content