Sigmund Freud · Science
Freud’s claim that the dream is not nonsense but a disguised <em>wish-fulfilment</em>, and that reading it - separating its remembered surface (<em>manifest content</em>) from its hidden meaning (<em>latent content</em>), and undoing the <em>dream-work</em> that disguised it - is the royal road into the unconscious.
You learned that for Freud a dream is a disguised wish-fulfilment; that the remembered dream (manifest content) is a coded translation of the hidden dream-thoughts (latent content); and that the dream-work does the disguising through condensation, displacement, and symbolism. Explain these terms and why Freud called d…
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