When you sleep, what do you dream of? Do you dream of enjoyable things like lounging in the beach? Do you dream of being in a situation youve never even thought of?
What is psychoanalysis?
Psychoanalysis is a specific treatment wherein a trained professional, or an analyst, listens to a patients thoughts, then formulates and explains the unconscious basis behind the persons behaviour or condition. In some cases, analysts ask about what the patient dreamt about the previous night and interpret information based on those images. This treatment was founded the man who introduced the concept of unconscious function Dr. Sigmund Freud.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and psychologist who started the psychoanalytic school of psychology. He introduced the idea of the unconscious mind and its mechanism of repression. He also said that dreams are the window to a persons unconscious desires.
The Unconscious Mind
Throughout the evolution of Freuds psychoanalytic theories, he considered the unconscious mind as a sentient force of will influenced by human drive and yet operating well below the perceptual conscious...