What Are You Hiding Psychoanalysis and The Unconscious

Title:
What Are You Hiding?

Psychoanalysis and The Unconscious

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637

Summary:
This article is about the relevance of dreams in uncovering the unconscious. Doctor Sigmund Fr

Keywords:
psychoanalysis

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When you sleep, what do you dream of?

Do you dream of enjoyable things like lounging in the b

What is psychoanalysis?
Psychoanalysis is a specific treatment wherein a trained professional, or an analyst, listens


Who is Sigmund Freud?
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and psychologist who started the psychoanalytic scho

The Unconscious Mind
Throughout the evolution of Freud´s psychoanalytic theories, he considered the unconscious min
Freud divided mind into the Ego, or the conscious mind, and the two parts of the unconscious:
Defense mechanism
Freud believed that people develop defense mechanisms to protect the conscious mind from certa
Repression
This is the most commonly manifested defense mechanism among the ones mentioned above. It is
Dreams
Freud postulated that dreams were wish fulfillments. That it provides a fantasy satisfaction
When you´re asleep, your repressed desires and impulses are relaxed. It doesn´t, however, mean
Condensation. Multiple thoughts merge into a single symbol in the dream.
Displacement. Inner desires manifest themselves as objects related to it.
Symbolization. Ideas and/or impulses are turned into pictures.
Secondary revision. This is the rational gloss we put on a dream, turning the dream into a man

Freud believed dream interpretation should concentrate on the underlying symbols in the dream,


As what the late Sigmund Freud said, your dreams are an extension of your innermost desires an

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