SIGMUND FREUD THEORY- WISH FUL-FILLMENT

The famous psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud (left), was the first to suggest that dreams may serve a particular scientific purpose. Sigmund Freud’s dream theory was explained as dreams being symbols of unconscious desires.  Sigmund Freud believed that dreams sometimes served as a way for people to express guilt or conquer trauma; and previously stated, that they represent unconscious desires, thoughts, and motivations. According to Freud, people can also be driven by repressed and conscious longings, such as aggressive and sexual instincts. The American Psychoanalytic Association explains how all of these conjectures played into Sigmund Freud's overall theory of dreams: they are manifestations of unconscious workings of the brain. He is quoted as saying, “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind" according to EKU online. He believed that dreams were a way of acting upon both ‘acceptable’ and ‘unacceptable’ desires that resided in our subconscious, meaning that dreaming was a way for you to express unconscious wishes that you would find to be unacceptable in real life. According to this theory, dreams were a result of a conflict between the id, which is the instinctive and primitive part of our personalities, and the superego, which is the moral compasses of our brains. Pictured below, shows how Freud viewed the brain and your mind through a mental iceberg.

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