Dream analysis

• Dreamwork


  The process by which the latent content of a dream is transformed into the manifest content
• Dreamwork


  1. Condensation

  2. Displacement

  3. Symbolism

  4. Secondary revision
• Latent content


  The real meaning of a dream
• Manifest content


  The content of the dream that is actually experienced
• Freud famously described dreams as 'the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind'
• Freud proposed that the unconscious mind expresses itself through dreams, and that the content of a person's dreams can reveal what is in their unconscious
• Dream analysis


  The process of assigning meaning to dreams
• Dreams as wish fulfilment

  Freud believed that all dreams were the unconscious fulfilment of wishes that could not be satisfied in the conscious mind
• The symbolic nature of dreams

  According to Freud, the real meaning of a dream (latent content) is transformed into a more innocuous form (manifest content)
• Freud did not support the idea of dream dictionaries
• Freud recognised that not everything in a dream is symbolic