Sigmund Freud developed a model of the mind in which he described the aspects of the mind’s structure and function. Freud uses an example of an iceberg to correlate with the levels of the mind. On the surface is consciousness or the tip of the iceberg. This consists of thoughts and memories that are derived from meaningful thinking and conscious understanding. Below the surface and arguably the most significant region is the unconscious. This contains the processes that are thought to be the cause of most behaviors and/or attitudes. The unconscious mind is a bank of primitive wishes and impulses held back from our conscious state. Freud observed that some events and desires were too traumatizing or unrealistic (based on the modern perception
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The one that is most prominent to me is reoccurring dream that originated almost a year ago. In the duration of my dream, there is always a different setting, although the setting always contains a flight of stairs. Within the dream, there are people surrounding me, sometimes strangers, acquaintances and more commonly people who are close to me (family/friends). During the dream, I never seem to hear a noise, although I can hear my own thoughts and the things I would speak out if I was able. At an early point in the dream, I will come across a scenario in which I am intended climb the stairs, in every dream I’ve had like this, the same outcome always occurs. As soon as I try to climb the stairs an intense feeling of weakness will come over me and I am dropped to my knees. Even though I have a very limited strength I continue to try and climb the stairs, using the railings or my hands as support, I try and muster up the ability to get back up but I never can. The dream always ends in which I do not know if I reach the top of the stairs, where the stairs lead nor being able to get back up. I have spent a good amount of time analyzing and trying to interpret this dream and I have only come up with one logic conclusion. I find that the stairs represent the climb that you must endure throughout life, and my weakness is the state I have been in for years. I understand that …show more content…
Freud was among the first people to analyze dreams and put a symbolic meaning to them, opening a realm of the unfathomable and undiscovered. While he seemed to have understood the interpretations of dreams, he may also have shown bias due to having only paying attention to information which reinforced his own theories and simply disregarded information that did not match up. For these reasons the theory he fabricated is unfalsifiable; it cannot be proved correct nor incorrect. As I stated before the unconscious mind is nearly impossible to test and measure non-subjectively thus the many mysteries of the mind will remain unsolved until the day we can further and more efficiently elaborate upon the unconscious
The one that is most prominent to me is reoccurring dream that originated almost a year ago. In the duration of my dream, there is always a different setting, although the setting always contains a flight of stairs. Within the dream, there are people surrounding me, sometimes strangers, acquaintances and more commonly people who are close to me (family/friends). During the dream, I never seem to hear a noise, although I can hear my own thoughts and the things I would speak out if I was able. At an early point in the dream, I will come across a scenario in which I am intended climb the stairs, in every dream I’ve had like this, the same outcome always occurs. As soon as I try to climb the stairs an intense feeling of weakness will come over me and I am dropped to my knees. Even though I have a very limited strength I continue to try and climb the stairs, using the railings or my hands as support, I try and muster up the ability to get back up but I never can. The dream always ends in which I do not know if I reach the top of the stairs, where the stairs lead nor being able to get back up. I have spent a good amount of time analyzing and trying to interpret this dream and I have only come up with one logic conclusion. I find that the stairs represent the climb that you must endure throughout life, and my weakness is the state I have been in for years. I understand that …show more content…
Freud was among the first people to analyze dreams and put a symbolic meaning to them, opening a realm of the unfathomable and undiscovered. While he seemed to have understood the interpretations of dreams, he may also have shown bias due to having only paying attention to information which reinforced his own theories and simply disregarded information that did not match up. For these reasons the theory he fabricated is unfalsifiable; it cannot be proved correct nor incorrect. As I stated before the unconscious mind is nearly impossible to test and measure non-subjectively thus the many mysteries of the mind will remain unsolved until the day we can further and more efficiently elaborate upon the unconscious