![]() ![]() The wish has in some way been ‘forbidden’ from consciousness and remains in a state of repression. ![]() If the latent wish has been disguised, Freud argues there must be something in the mind defending against the wish, working to stop it from entering the manifest content where we would become conscious of it.ĭreams of the death of a loved one, or of unacceptable sexual desires, show clearly the existence of wishes which are normally repressed. “My theory is not based on a consideration of the manifest content of dreams, but refers to the thoughts which are shown by the work of interpretation to lie behind dreams.” They are represented in the manifest content, but in a disguised form. The wishes expressed in dreams are found at the level of the latent content, which can be brought out through free association. The latent content (the underlying ‘dream thoughts’ that make up the dream).The manifest content (the dream as we remember it).It is at the level of the thoughts behind dreams that wish fulfilments can be found.įreud makes a crucial distinction between two levels of the dream: What about dreams that don’t makes sense?įreud’s response is: dreams should not be taken at face value!.What about dreams where things go wrong?.The claim that dreams fulfil wishes is easy to criticise at a glance: What about dreams that don’t make sense? Freud’s next step is that a dream is the disguised fulfilment of a repressed wish. ![]()
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