Link to Psychodynamic assumptions

• Unconscious mind : main aim of psychoanalysis is to make the unconscious conscious so that people become aware of unconscious influences. Dream analysis is thought to be the via regia (royal road) to the unconscious mind
• Childhood Experiences

  any traumatic event that has occurred during early childhood that may have been repressed and surfaced in the form of a dream. To uncover such repressed memories the therapist would offer interpretations of the dream in the context of the clients life
• Tripartite Personality

  Freud believed when a person is dreaming the ego becomes suppressed and the ID is given free reign and dreams may represent unconscious motives, wishes and desires that would be socially unacceptable in the waking works