Dream Analysis

Dream Analysis is one of the important notions in Freudian theory. He considers dreams as possible entrances or outlets for repressed ideas. They are essentially symbolic fulfillment of the unconscious hopes and wishes. Dreams, in turn, become symbolic texts which need to be understood. In this context, Roman Jacobson's usage of two terms regarding the human language, metaphor and metonymy which, later, moved the French psychologist Jacques Lacan to comment that the unconscious is structured like a language.
Freud opines that dreams are the outcome of daily occurrences or thoughts of everyday life. He also states that the dreams can also functions as wish gratification, the repressed sexual desires or the regret of one's childhood and the deep longing for the execution of the events in the future. Dreams may find the forms of outplay through the interplay of words or a set of images which Freud terms them as condensation, displacement and distortion. Not only the dreams, but also the paraphrase provides an access to the unconscious. They are unaccountable slips of tongue, failures of memory, bungling, misreading and misplaying which can be traced to unconscious wishes and intentions. The presence of unconscious is also betrayed in jokes, which for Freud largely libidinal, anxious and aggressive content.
Freud's theory of dream interpretation has given a much wider perspective to the literary critic in evaluating the text. According to him, a dream is a disguised fulfillment of a suppressed or repressed wish. The outlets of the dream have to assume a disguise in order to get through the consciousness and achieve its aim. He has projected four concepts in the process of transformation of real events into the dream-images. They are Transference, Projection, Displacement and condensation.

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