Dream Psychology
by Sigmund Freud
Original Title: Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners
Author: Sigmund Freud
Genres: Non-fiction, Psychology
Publisher: Madness Serial Publishing
File version: 1.0
Sigmund Freud is commonly referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis" and his work has been highly influential—popularizing such notions as the unconscious, the Oedipus complex, defence mechanisms, Freudian slips and dream symbolism—while also making a long-lasting impact on fields as diverse as literature, film, Marxist and feminist theories, and psychology.
In Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners, Sigmund Freud, coined "the father of psychoanalysis" presents to the reading public, in a form that shall neither discourage beginners nor appear too elementary to those who are more advanced in the psychoanalytic study, the key to all modern psychology.
With a simple, compact manual such as Dream Psychology, there shall no longer be any excuse for ignorance of the most revolutionary psychological system of modern times. Covering everything from sexual desires and the unconscious to the symbolism of dreams this is a seminal handbook for students of Freudian theory.
Dreams, in Freud's view, are all forms of "wish fulfilment" — attempts by the unconscious to resolve a conflict of some sort, whether something recent or something from the recesses of the past (later in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud would discuss dreams which do not appear to be wish-fulfilment). Because the information in the unconscious is in an unruly and often disturbing form, a "censor" in the preconscious will not allow it to pass unaltered into the conscious.
During dreams, the preconscious is laxer in this duty than in waking hours but is still attentive: as such, the unconscious must distort and warp the meaning of its information to make it through censorship. As such, images in dreams are often not what they appear to be, according to Freud, and need deeper interpretation if they are to inform on the structures of the unconscious.
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