dreams as wish fulfilment

• what did Freud see dreams as?

  representing wish fulfilment, expressing repressed wishes & desires that conscious person see as unacceptable
• what is unacceptable to adult conscious mind while awake?

  repressed wishes & desires, so repressed into unconscious
• what do dreams do?

  protect the sleeper (primary thought process) but also allow expression to these buried urges (wish fulfilment)
• what is the principle of dream analysis?

  decode what unconscious mind is expressing in storyline of dream
• what does dream analysis therefore aim to do?

  make unconscious conscious so people can gain insight & be cured of disorder