Psychoanalytic Analysis Of School Dreams

The ideas of psychoanalytic perspective were developed by Sigmund Freud. This perspective perceives dreams as an expression of one 's own unconscious wishes and desires. The material of the dream, or the manifest content, is understood and explained through various symbols, or the latent content. Freud 's perspective states that the latent content of dreams express the unfiltered and true unconscious ideas, which could be considered as too explicit for the regular mind. The psychoanalytic view aims to analyze one 's self in terms of internal conflicts and underlying meanings.
Latent Content School. School is most often recognized as a symbol of internal fear, anxiousness, or self-doubt. More specifically, the setting of school relates to a personal concern. In a positive light, school dreams reflect a desire for perfection with work; contrasting this, dreams involving school may also reflect a very high level of anxiety. As my dream contained stress over homework …show more content…
The dream felt generally natural, and my thoughts and feelings in the dream felt realistic to how I would approach things in real life to a certain extent. The date of the concert on the floor relates to information that I read the night before, in which 5 Seconds of Summer was going to be having a concert in the Philippines. The concern over homework was also paralleled to real life as that is one thing I and my friends always have a common stress over. The dream made me very aware of my slightly excessive concern over school--which is something I would like to lessen as I do not think it is particularly ideal to have school on my mind every waking moment. Also, texting Reed Deming is similar to the situation in which I had the ability to talk to him, but he never prompted the conversation; the experience in the dream really brought forth the realization that Reed has a significant role in my life even if we are not really acquainted