Dream Theories My first theory that I list would be Sigmund Freud theory that dreams focus primarily on sexual desires and symbolism. "I found in myself a constant love for my mother, and jealousy of my father. I now consider this to be a universal event in childhood," Freud said. His thoughts was that children were more fond to the opposite sex parent. He used the Oedipus conflict to point out how much he believed that people desire incest and must repress that desire. Oedipus was the king of Thebes who killed his father and married his mother. They later had four children. Freud used the Oedipus complex to symbolize the mother son relationship. The psychoanalytic theory is that when you’re young a desire for sexual involvement with
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They theorized that “dreams were simply the result of random electrical brain impulses that pulled imagery from traces of experience stored in the memory.” Parts in the brain stem turn on during the REM sleep. The hippocampus, amygdala, and parts of the limbic system also become active during REM which involves memory, emotions, and sensation. Hobson and McCarley made out there was five characteristics of a dream. They are; illogical content, intense emotion, accepting strange content, strange sensory experience, and difficulty remembering a dream. They came to understand this theory by disagreeing with Freud theory that dreams were filled with hidden messages by design. This is a relevant theory because it basically changed all previous theories about dreams. My final theory comes from Carl Jung. He theorized that dreams are a way of communicating, and acquainting yourself with the unconscious. He used the process individuation. Individuation is thought as the mind’s quest to wholeness. Dreams reveal more than concealed. He came to understand this theory because he disagreed about Freud about that dreams are designed to be secretive. He also did not believe dream formation comes from discharging our tabooed sexual impulses. I don’t believe this one was as
They theorized that “dreams were simply the result of random electrical brain impulses that pulled imagery from traces of experience stored in the memory.” Parts in the brain stem turn on during the REM sleep. The hippocampus, amygdala, and parts of the limbic system also become active during REM which involves memory, emotions, and sensation. Hobson and McCarley made out there was five characteristics of a dream. They are; illogical content, intense emotion, accepting strange content, strange sensory experience, and difficulty remembering a dream. They came to understand this theory by disagreeing with Freud theory that dreams were filled with hidden messages by design. This is a relevant theory because it basically changed all previous theories about dreams. My final theory comes from Carl Jung. He theorized that dreams are a way of communicating, and acquainting yourself with the unconscious. He used the process individuation. Individuation is thought as the mind’s quest to wholeness. Dreams reveal more than concealed. He came to understand this theory because he disagreed about Freud about that dreams are designed to be secretive. He also did not believe dream formation comes from discharging our tabooed sexual impulses. I don’t believe this one was as