Unconscious mind

dream depicted him as a scary baby who chased me. Turns out, he is not as nice as I thought when I was younger. Maybe my subconscious knew he was not what I wanted before I realized it. Relating my dream to the theory, this may have been a way for my mind to realize this boy is not as great as I thought he was. Another example of this may have been Justin Bieber being there. At my middle school no one liked Justin Bieber, so maybe since I did at the time, I dreamt that I met…

Dreams are the one thing in the world that everyone has in common. No matter where one is from, he or she has undoubtedly dreamt while sleeping. What separates these unconscious encounters is how each individual interprets them. In Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, he claims that dreams act as wish fulfilment. While many may agree, the argument backing up this point of view is quite unreliable. Freud’s take on why people dream cannot be taken as fact because not all dreams are…

Dreams have been the topic of discussion for hundreds of years, yet the answer for why we dream and what they mean has yet to be answered. Dreams are a series of vivid images that occur during the REM stage of sleep. Many scientists have tried to explain the meaning of dreams with theories. Per Sigmund Fraud, our dreams are a way of playing out our wishes that we might not think of consciously. This theory is made up of two parts manifest content, which is the actual dream itself and how it is…

hidden messages by design. This is a relevant theory because it basically changed all previous theories about dreams. My final theory comes from Carl Jung. He theorized that dreams are a way of communicating, and acquainting yourself with the unconscious. He used the process individuation. Individuation is thought as the mind’s quest to wholeness. Dreams reveal more than concealed. He came to understand this theory because he disagreed about Freud about that dreams are designed to be secretive.…

In class we discussed psychological disorders and different therapies that may be used to treat them. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is a serious condition that we covered in this unit; it occurs in individuals that have witnessed or been apart of a traumatic event. In the article Posttraumatic Nightmares of Traumatized Refugees: Dream Work Integrating Cultural Values, Carla Shubert and Raija-Leena Punamaki explore the application of dream work in psychotherapy.The article includes a study of an…

Is there such thing as a repressed memory? A repressed memory is a memory of a traumatic experience unconsciously kept in the mind, where it is said to affect conscious desire, though, and action. The debate over this has been going on for many years. Many people believe that therapists and hypnosis bring on these memories. They believe that the therapist may influence someone to believe something that didn’t happen to them. Recovered memories and hypnosis are often known to be related. A…

Sigmund Freud and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing both developed their own ideas of emotion within their writings over art and the subject of the pregnant moment. For each philosopher, emotion was more than an abstract experience that people go through, but rather a phenomenon to be understood. Freud writes on this in his collection Writings on Art and Literature, where he analyzes Michelangelo’s Moses. Lessing’s writes on emotion in his writing Laocoon focuses on the statue of Laocoon. When defining…

Have you ever acquire the feeling that you want to assist the deplorable impoverished and support a charity or two, or just wanted to kill someone. Well, there's a reason why. Sigmund Freud developed a new psychic theory that contains 3 different parts of your personalities moreover what each one does to your own emotions. The three are called Id, Ego, and Superego, and each served their own purpose. Freud directed us towards psychoanalysis, which was used for treating mental illness. He…

to have feelings. Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic theory correlates with my idea of what human nature is because it is natural to have wants and needs, but one must also be realistic. Freud’s Psychoanalytic theory is made up of the conscious, the unconscious, Id, Ego, and Superego (Wolozin, 2005). The Id is an unruly child and it is ruled by the pleasure principle. This means that the Id does not care who it hurts…

their history the Associations for Research and Enlightenment found on May 5, 2012 that this idea was first introduced by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus. Later, Plato added to the theory by proposing that dreams signaled a person’s mental state of mind. Hippocrates, the founder of modern medicine, thought that dreams carried a diagnostic property that allowed the dreamer access to the root of their aliment. Aristotle expanded on these ideas and suggested that all dreams are related to memories…