Dream Analysis

• First component is dreams as wish fulfilment

  Freud believed dreams were unconcious fulfilment of wishes that couldn't be satisfied in the conscious mind. Dreams protect the sleeper but also alllow some expression to these buried urges.
• Second Component is the symbolic nature of dreams

  The real meaning of a dream (latent content) is transformed into manifest content (what you actually experience) . An example being a vagina by a tunnel or cave. In order to understand the meaning of the dreams fully it was necessary to consider them in the context of someone’s life
• Dreamwork

  Latent content of a dream in transformed into manifest content through the process of dream work
• Dreamwork

  Condensation - Dream thoughts (ruch in detail) are condensed into brief images in a dream. One dream image stands for several associations

  Displacement - Emotional significance of a dream object is separated from its real object and attached to a completely different one
• Role of therapist

  • role therapist is to reverse the dream work process
  • to decode the manifest content into latent content
  • Shouldn’t offer one interpretation of a dream but suggest various interpretations based on patients feedback and knowledge of their life experiences