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Freud considered that the experience of anxiety dreams and nightmares was the result of failures in the dream-work: rather than contradicting the "wish-fulfillment" theory, such phenomena demonstrated how the ego reacted to the awareness of repressed wishes that were too powerful and insufficiently disguised. Traumatic dreams (where the dream ...
The Interpretation of Dreams (German: Die Traumdeutung) is an 1899 book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in which the author introduces his theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation, and discusses what would later become the theory of the Oedipus complex.
Until and even after publication of the Solms 2000 paper that certified the separability of REM sleep and dream phenomena, [16] many studies purporting to uncover the function of dreams have in fact been studying not dreams but measurable REM sleep. Theories of dream function since the identification of REM sleep include:
Dreams contain multimodal pseudo-perceptions; sometimes any or all sensory modalities are present, but most often visual and motoric. [9] Dream imagery can change quickly and is regularly of a bizarre nature, but reports also contain many images and events that are a part of day-to-day life. [9]
Simply put, you’re not just perceiving the dream’s sensory input, which is what ordinary dreams involve—you’re actively aware you’re dreaming and can steer your dream’s content ...
For Jung, dreams express archetypes, the unconscious structures that shape the human imagination. Freud had also noted, in The Interpretation of Dreams, the existence of "typical dreams" made by a large number of people that do not designate personal imperatives. But "Freud paid little attention to these dream motifs", explains Claire Dorly. [4]
The Meaning of Dreams: 1953 "A Cognitive Theory of Dream Symbols," Journal of General Psychology, 48, 169-186: metaphoric theory of dream symbols 1954: A Primer of Freudian Psychology: 1957: Theories of Personality: 1966: The Content Analysis of Dreams: coding system co-authored with Robert Van de Castle 1970: Dreams, Life, and Literature ...
The expectation fulfilment theory of dreaming, proposed by psychologist Joe Griffin in 1993, [1] posits that the prime function of dreams, during REM sleep, is to act out metaphorically non-discharged emotional arousals (expectations) that were not expressed during the previous day.