PSYCHOLOGY

Psychoanalytic Approach to Dreams

Psychoanalytic Approach to Dreams

Sigmund Freud Psychoanalysis of Dreams

Freud himself in 1923 was following three meanings of "psychoanalysis" distinction:

First a method for the investigation of mental processes which are otherwise hard to reach,

Second a method of treatment of neurotic disorders, based on this investigation,

Third an educational building with a series of psychological insights that gradually grow together to form a new scientific discipline.

These three aspects of psychoanalysis are naturally intertwined. For purposes of illustration of Freudian dream theory, however, we restrict ourselves to the second aspect, the treatment of neurotic disorders (Freud & Crick, 1999).

Neuroses are physical or mental illness, the cause of the experience-related disorder in the person-environment relationship is. To treat the disorder, one must know the experience and the experiences that have led to the failure of the person-environment relationship. Freud used to the

Hypnosis: With their help he managed the health of lost back into memory. After that could be the pathogenic conflict and the experience will be discussed with the patient. Freud was, however, hypnosis soon as he first failed to mesmerize all the sick, and secondly, treatment success was short-lived. Freud replaced hypnosis by the method of free association, that is, he asked his patients to give up all conscious thought and provide information only on their spontaneous ideas, even if they seem nonsensical, irrelevant or offensive. The expectation of the joy of this new method, followed up, was that the free association will prove to be strictly determined, in fact, in the sense that after suppression of conscious thought contents of the unconscious material came to light. This material was unconscious Freud on the trail of the forgotten by the patient and thus to cause s cause of neurosis.

Freud recognized but very soon that the patient is opposed to the discovery of forgotten a not inconsiderable resistance. He then took us now assume that the same forces also acted in the patient before, and led to the displacement of a mental conflict had. Due to this very repression into the unconscious, this conflict to cause disease, i.e., they'll now be expressed as a neurotic symptom.

In the course of his psychotherapeutic practice then Freud came to believe that the dream is built differently than a neurotic symptom. He believed, however, that in the dream, the repressed emotion is clearly expressed in the waking life. Precisely for this reason, Freud was the study of dreams for the best access to the knowledge of the repressed unconscious and thus for the treatment of neuroses As Freud put now the mechanism of Dream before emergence, which he considered the nature and function of dreams?

First, Freud was in contrast to medicine and psychology of his time believed that every dream has a meaning. The strangeness that often adheres to our dreams is a consequence of distortions that have been made ??to its original meaning. Freud now developed a technique by which we 'the dream, as we remember him for enlightenment - Freud's "manifest dream content" called ...