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Freud's 1900 Interpretation of Dreams launched the psychoanalytic theory of the mind. Freud's theory of dream interpretation demonstrates continual conflict between the unconscious sexual drives and the conscious ego's resistance to them. A dream is a symbolic representation of the dreamer's unconscious desire, rooted in repressed infantile sexuality. Freud's method did not employ universal symbols, but stressed rather the contingency and specificity of dreaming to the life of the dreamer; it is less concerned with the promulgation of a methodology by which the truth of all dreams is discovered, than with ...