

Of dreams, when carefully examined will reveal their meaning. He continues to explain that even the most distorted He suggests that most dreams are a sort of way for the unconscious mind to express its desires. He suggests that dreams have their own language and thus need to be interpreted. In the work, Freud differentiates between dreams that are at the surface and unconscious level dreams. He uses a self-analysis of his own dreams in order to prove the theory he puts forward about how dream psychology works. He goes so far as to classify the different types of dreams. In the works, Freud postulates that dreams are a way through which the mind tries to stay awake after the person The subject of relentless criticism, there is no denying the influence he had on much of the twentieth century. Although his theory on dreams, presented extensively in this work has been Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, 1921Ĭonsidered the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud wrote the book The Interpretation of Dreams towards the end of the nineteenth century.Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood, 1910.Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, 1905.Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, 1905.


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