Historical Psychoanalysis And Dream Interpretation: The Freudian Methodology

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interpretation, was integral in developing some methodologies of utilizing the dream as a means of deciphering the psyche of the dreamer, particularly in uncovering and analyzing the dreamer's psychological problems. In Freud's view, the purpose of dreams was to allow the individual to experience the instinctual urges that society deems unacceptable. Being that Freud was a product of the Victorian age, much of his dreamwork focused on the symbolism of dreams as projections of feelings of sexual frustration and guilt (15, 16 Storr).
he leading dream theory since the early twentieth century has been that of psychoanalysis according to Sigmund Freud. Freud's theory encompassed the idea that dream formation is the psychological disguise of an unconscious wish. During the sleep state the ego or self relaxes its vigilance toward the id or instinct, which allows forbidden wishes or drives to escape from their safe confinement that resides in the unconscious. If these freed desires ...

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make-up the latent contents (the second level of dreams) and consists of unconscious wishes and fantasies, which have been, denied gratification. These wishes find an outlet through being expressed in a transformed way and eventually appear in an unrecognizable form in the manifest content. It is as if two languages are represented, with one being a cleaned-up version of something that is much more raw and crude (151-158 Freud).
The unconscious is composed of innate, instinctive material, which has never been conscious, as well as additions in which have been banished to the unconscious because they were consciously unacceptable. Responsible for maintaining the boundary between ...

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