I need a small response to this response on Freud and his discourse about dreams. Any knowledge about Freud would be greatly appreciated. * Please note that a 2 paragraph response is just fine. be clear and concise. ——————————– Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist. He is known to be the father of psychoanalysis. I found his work on The Interpretation of Dreams to be super interesting. Freud uses Oedipus Rex to help explain that children develop their first sexual and murderous impulses and desires towards their parents. Oedipus, the son of Laïus, King of Thebes, ends up murdering his father and unknowingly had children with his mother. Freud suggests that these impulses are not unique to Oedipus alone. Every child has these repugnant desires which he learns to control and repress/suppress as they grow up because they are so morally distasteful – so misaligned with the norms of society. Important terms to define in The Interpretation of Dreams are: dream-thought (manifest content) and dream-thought (latent content). Dream-content or manifest content is the actual content of the dream. It is the original script from which dream-thought or a dream’s latent content is derived from. Dream-thought is the analysis, interpretation, and translation of the manifest content of the dream. The following quote exemplifies the relationship between dream-content and dream-thought: “… the dream-content no longer resembles the core of the dream-thoughts and … the dream gives no more than a distortion of the dream-wish which exists in the unconscious” (Leitch, 820). What we get from this quote: 1) a dream is the distortion of circumstances which reveals a dream-wish 2) this dream-wish is repressed and remains in our unconscious. Dreams are distorted through dream displacement to allude to the repressed wish because this wish may be too unsettling to confront by our conscious selves. Freud suspects that our repressed wishes which gets revealed through our dreams, tend to be related to our unsatisfied sexual cravings towards our parents from childhood. These cravings for our parents are distorted in our dreams because they’re too repugnant for our conscious to accept. As Freud says, “No seems not to exist so far as dreams are concerned”. Dreams push boundaries. They usurp the social constructions that govern our waking lives. Society establishes an order that sets a standard as to how we should behave around each other. Dreams allow us to escape from reality by exposing our repressions. According to this belief, are those repressions truly who we are? Does that mean we can only truly be ourselves when we dream?

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