symbolic nature of dreams

• according to Freud, what do dreams carry?

  although dreams represent unfulfilled wishes, contents expressed symbolically = carry important message
• what is transformed?

  Real meaning of the dream (lately content) to more harmless/less offensive form (manifest content)
• what is meaningless to everyone?

  manifest content until psychoanalyst trained to interpret symbols
• what may symbolise a penis?

  gun or snake
• what may symbolise a vagina?

  tunnel or cave
• what was needed to understand the meaning of dream symbols fully?

  necessary to consider them in a persons life
• name an example of considering content on a person's life

  a fish represents a fisherman friend
• what did Freud NOT support?

  idea of dream dictionaries
• what did Freud recognise?

  not everything in a dream is symbolic