In Sigmund Freud’s piece, On Dreams, Freud analyzes the dreams of himself and others in order in order to find the purpose of dreams in terms of his own psychoanalytic definition of the mind, in which psychological forces of pleasure seeking and restraint are at constant ends. Freud determines that the principle function of dreams is to fulfill the wishes of the id, or “pleasure principle” which wants instant gratification, so that the ego, the part of the brain that thinks about long term success, can get rest. However if one digs deeper into Freud’s inability to fully disclose his own dreams, and sees that when he “discove(red) the solution of the dream all kinds of things were revealed which (he) was unwilling to admit even to (himself).”
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Both the concept of repression and wish fulfillment are perpetuated by the ego in order to grant the dreamer long-term psychological and physical energy. In On Dreams, Freud describes the primary function of dreams as being entities that fulfill wishes. Freud calls the dreams we directly see the “manifest dream” (DUKKY) whilst calling the latent themes behind dreams, appropriately, “latent dream thoughts.” (DUKKY) Freud claimed that components featured in in manifest dreams where representations of latent dream thoughts that represented desires. Hence, the manifest dreams allow people to act out their desires. Freud …show more content…
In doing so he discovers that dreams seem to fulfill a wish of the dreamer, because the dreamer’s ego is attempting to fulfill the immediate desires of the id in order to have a restful sleep and gain energy. Similarly, through Freud’s admittance that dreams caused him to learn things about himself that he didn’t want to “admit to himself” (DUCK) we can determine that dreams, through scrambling the gap between manifest dreams and latent dream thoughts, which, intern, allows the dreamers mind to avoid spending energy on thoughts that are repressed. The ego is the driving force behind both of these distinct features of dreams. Hence, dream formation is controlled, by repression and the creation of dream fulfillment, entirely by the
Both the concept of repression and wish fulfillment are perpetuated by the ego in order to grant the dreamer long-term psychological and physical energy. In On Dreams, Freud describes the primary function of dreams as being entities that fulfill wishes. Freud calls the dreams we directly see the “manifest dream” (DUKKY) whilst calling the latent themes behind dreams, appropriately, “latent dream thoughts.” (DUKKY) Freud claimed that components featured in in manifest dreams where representations of latent dream thoughts that represented desires. Hence, the manifest dreams allow people to act out their desires. Freud …show more content…
In doing so he discovers that dreams seem to fulfill a wish of the dreamer, because the dreamer’s ego is attempting to fulfill the immediate desires of the id in order to have a restful sleep and gain energy. Similarly, through Freud’s admittance that dreams caused him to learn things about himself that he didn’t want to “admit to himself” (DUCK) we can determine that dreams, through scrambling the gap between manifest dreams and latent dream thoughts, which, intern, allows the dreamers mind to avoid spending energy on thoughts that are repressed. The ego is the driving force behind both of these distinct features of dreams. Hence, dream formation is controlled, by repression and the creation of dream fulfillment, entirely by the