Freud opens with an explanation for the purpose of this book; it is designed to make dream analysis as a manifestation of the unconscious accessible to members of the general public who are otherwise unable to understand the methods of analysis because of the technical jargon and intellectual complexity of previous volumes on the topic. He describes the connection between the unconscious and the dream. For his methods, Freud prefers to assume that all dream ideas are representations of the state of the unconscious. To begin the instruction, Freud outlines the components of a dream for further analysis. First, dreams contain both manifest content -- details remembered by the awakened dreamer -- and latent content -- aspects of the dream which reflect secret's of the unconscious such as repression. Freud uses free association, the process of having a patient speak rapidly and without correction about their stream of consciousness in response to a particular dream, in order to help a patient analyze his or her own dreams. This method supposedly reduces a person's natural impulse to disassociate or hide certain ideas of the unconscious.

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	May 3, 2021
ISBN13	9798747525283
Publishers	Independently Published
Pages	84
Dimensions	216 × 279 × 4 mm · 217 g
Language	English

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