Freud and Dreams Flashcards

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Sigmund Freud

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  • the founder of psychoanalysis
  • proposed complex theory to explain why and how dreams are produced
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Freud and Dreams

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  • he beleived that dreams are expressions of unconscious desires, thoughts and conflicts that are typically repressed or suppressed during waking life
  • according to him, the primary purpose of dreams is wish fulfillment.
  • though dreams can serve other functions such as processing emotions and providing insight into the unconscious mind
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freud distinguished between the manifest content of dreams

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  • the actual narrative or imagery experienced during dreaming
  • often distorted and distinguished through symbolism
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psychical determinism

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  • means that even small, unmotivated actions and mistakes are caused by our conscious and unconscious motivations
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the latent content

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  • represents the underlying, hidden meaning of the dream
  • reflects unconscious wishes and conflicts
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dreams originate from the unconscious mind

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  • where repressed desires, fears and unresolved conflicts reside
  • these unconscious impulses are censored by the ego to protect against anxiety and maintain psychological stability
  • however, during sleep, when the egos defenses are lowered, repressed material can surface in the form of dreams
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Freuds mechanisms - through which the unconscious material is transformed into the manifest content of dreams

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  • condensation
  • displacement
  • symbolization
  • secondary elaboration
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condensation

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multiple unconscious thoughts and wishes are combined into a single dream element

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displacement

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emotionally charged content is shifted from its original source to a less threatening or more acceptable form in the dream

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symbolization

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unconscious desires and conflicts are represented symbolically in the dream, often through abstract imagery

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secondary elaboration

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the unconscious material is woven into a coherent narrative during the dream

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dreams provide information about the unconscious, Freud stated…

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“the interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind”.

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dream content analysis

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  • if it is applied to children’s dreams, it seems they often have very simple wishes, whereas adults dreams have disguised wishes
  • Freud said that dreams are the guardians of sleep because they represent a wish that would otherwise wake us
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oedipus complex

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  • Freud thought many dreams are influenced by this
  • a central concept in Freudian psychoanalysis
  • according to this, children experience unconscious desires for their opposite sex parent and hostility toward their same-sex parent
  • these repressed feelings may manifest in dreams as symbolic representations of familial relationships and sexual desires
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dis-confirming Freud account - Kleitman 1953

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  • provided a foundation for alter crisis to declare that Freud’s wish-fulfilling dream theory was wrong
  • if anything dreams tend to be emotionally transparent
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dis-confirming Freud’s theory - Hobson 2013

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concludes that Freudian dream theory is entirely replaceable’

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1977 - Allan Hobson challenged Freud’s theory

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  • presented a neurobiological theory
  • challenged some aspects of freud’s
  • did not directly aim to dis confirm Freud, it offered a different perspective on the nature and function of dreams
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the activation-synthesis theory - Hobson and McCarley

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  • in this theory, brain stem generates random signals that activate various areas of the brain, leading to dreams
  • argued dreams lack meaning and are a result of the brains attempt to construct a narrative
  • his theory challenges the notion that dreams are meaningful reflections of unconscious desires