The Meaning Of Dream By Sigmund Freud

No one truly understand the meaning to why we dream. Some researchers believe that dreams are random and meaningless activities of the brain. While others believe its necessary for people’s mental and emotional health. The most known well dream theory is one that is constructed by Sigmund Freud. The foundation of Freud’s theory lies on the idea that dreaming allows people to fulfill the desires that they are not able to express in the real world. Dreams permits the unconscious mind to play these objectionable thoughts and desires that constitutes to our repressed behavior. Freud developed a structural model of the mind comprising the entities id, ego, and superego. The id meets people’s basic needs; the ego deals with reality trying to meet …show more content…
In this dream, Raskolnikov as a child, is walking with his father past a tavern and they encounter a group of drunken man. The owner of the mare, Mikolka, felt that the horse was of no use for its inability to push an overloaded cart. As they approach these group of man, young Raskolnikov witnesses the murder of the horse and feels remorse for it. The horse in the dream symbolizes Alyona and the reason for Mikolka’s brutal action represents Raskolnikov’s desire to kill Alyona. In this dream, Raskolnikov’s id and superego conflicts with one another. Raskolnikov knows it is morally wrong to kill a person, but he feels the need to kill Alyona Ivanova because he thinks that she is not doing any good for society. All that she is doing is taking the wealth of the poor so that she can become a wealthy woman. He felt that her death would benefit society in a way that her wealth can be put to good cause and be distributed to those in …show more content…
It has become evident that Raskolnikov was in a frenzy with himself after the murder of Alyona Ivanova and Lizaveta Ivanovna. He was aware of the fact that he should not have done such thing, but somehow convinced himself that it was his duty to kill for the sake of society. Hence in his first dream, he referred back to his innocent days as a child to illustrate the side of him that did not want to kill Ivanova. One can believe that Raskolnikov’s dreams represented his true feelings of his criminal act and due to his self-less act he faced the consequence of being slowly eaten by guilt. Dream two and three can support this and has showed Raskolnikov that he may not be the extraordinary man that he thought he was. Finally, the last dream convinced Raskolnikov that he is no extraordinary man and is no better than anyone