Dream interpretation

of a “battle companion” according to Gilgamesh’s mother the “axe” is a “strong man, a champion”. The sexual connotations symbolize how deep his feelings will be for Enkidu. Tablet VII Enkidu foresees his death through the symbolic dream of the underworld. Enkidu dreams of a man with “a somber face, a face like the lion-headed monster-bird Anzu” in the underworld, and the dead was “dressed like birds in feather garments,” The avian reference reflects a symbolic associate with birds and the souls…

Hebbrecht, M. (2013). The dream as a picture of the psychoanalytic process. Romanian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 6(2), 123–142. Retrieved from https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=93354202&site=ehost-live&scope=site This article references the Interpretation of Dreams by Freud in reference to the pictures of dream life and the psychology behind dreams. Freuds technique is to break the dream in all its elements and…

Dream analysis can be beneficial in the therapeutic setting to gain insight into the psyche. However, theorists often disagree on how much emphasis should be placed on these interpretations as well as the depth of symbolism within the content of the dreams. On one side of the spectrum, according to Freud’s therapeutic framework, Psychoanalytic Theory, dreams are viewed as the “royal road to the unconscious” (Corey, p. 74). He believed that within the dream phenomenon, our ego’s defenses are…

of the human mind and its functions, dreams, what are they? Dreams are a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person’s mind during sleep. Dreams are very mysterious, they are the “royal road to… the unconscious,” a famed psychologist once said (Sigmund Freud). Still, what is the meaning behind dreams? Some believe that dreams have certain meanings, some believe that dreams are some sort of wish fulfillment, but others believe that dreams are just random images from…

In his seminal work “Memories, Dreams, and Reflections” Carl Gustaf Jung presents a stinging defense of Sigmund Freud. As the footnote by Aniela Jaffe explains, “In his obituary on Freud (1939), Jung calls this work ‘epoch-making’ and ‘probably the boldest attempt that has ever been made to master the riddles of the unconscious psyche upon the apparently firm ground of empiricism. For us, then young psychiatrists, it was…a source of illumination, while for our older colleagues it was an…

transference. Transference means the redirections of feelings or projection of attitudes and emotions from one person to another. This access of repressed feelings is gained through the use of dream interpretation (Wallerstein, 2002). During his years in therapy Freud would use two techniques which are dream analysis and free association. Free association is when patients would say whatever they were feeling or thinking at the particular time meaning that it can be any…

than likely found ourselves wondering about the meaning of our dreams. Dreams have fascinated philosophers for thousands of years, and have been subjected to empirical research and scientific studies. Scientists have been performing sleep and dream studies for decades now. Dreams can be extremely vivid or very vague; filled with joyful emotions or scary imagery; focused and understandable or unclear and rather confusing (Cherry). Dreams are so fascinating because of the level of their…

to first understand the long history of dreams themselves. A dream is defined by Oxford Dictionary as, “a succession of images, emotions, sensations, and ideas that occur during periods of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep”. This inexplicable event has confounded civilization after civilization, throughout the course of written history. And it still continues to this day to cause wonder and raise questions in our society. The first written record of dreams started 3100 B.C. with the Sumerians in…

The ancient civilizations held dream interpretation to high standards. They believed that they were messages from the Gods or the demons. For example, the Babylonians believed that the good dreams were sent from the Gods that they prayed to, and the bad dreams were sent from the devils. They connected most of their dreams to their religion as they had a Goddess of dreams who averted bad dreams. This proves that dreams, and what they meant, were very important to this ancient civilization. It…

individual dreams; however, some people are affected more than others. Dreams are sequences of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Most occurring during rapid-eye movement or REM—when brain activity is high and resembles being awake. Many believe that dreams are a connection to an individual’s subconscious. Sigmund Freud, a scientist in the early 1900s performed extensive studies on dreams, including their interpretation,…