The Interpretation Of Dreams In The Psychology Of Siggmund Creud By Sigmund Freud

The Interpretation of Dreams is a classic work in the field of psychology written by the world-renowned psychologist, Sigmund Freud. It has been translated by Joyce Crick from its original version written in German. Freud is widely known as the father of modern psychology, despite many of his beliefs and theories being dismissed as invalid by many modern psychologists. He was the originator of a school of psychological thought called psychoanalysis, which inspired many other great psychologists and their theories in the future such as Carl Jung, Karen Horney and Alfred Adler. The book itself was the first real work that analyzed dreams in depth from a psychological standpoint. It was quite revolutionary and introduced many new topics to consider

The first being external stimuli. Freud uses the example of a crowing rooster being translated to a human crying for help in a dream. One could also smell smoke from cooking and translate that into having a dream of being trapped in a burning building. Overall, any sense that we feel in the real world can be interpreted in any way while dreaming. The second source of our dreams is sensory excitation. This means that dreams can be taken from biological stimulation. The example used by Freud was to be on a diet, and therefore quite hungry, then having a dream of an extravagant meal. These dreams are said to be more like hallucinations and work in regard to biological desires in regard to self preservation. The third source of dreams is internal organic somatic stimulus. These dreams are in regard directly to our biological feelings, similar to the second type. However, this one works more in regard to sensations taking place directly affecting internal organs rather than natural bodily functions. The example used in the book was for an individual suffering from lung disease to have dreams involving asphyxiation or strangling. The fourth and final source of dreams is stimulation in the psyche. Freud says these are dreams involving our truest desires from the ID part of our brains consciousness, which is our deepest and most repressed thoughts. For example, if an individual was very upset at a

Consciousness consist of three different levels of depth, those being ego, superego and ID. Ego is our conscious thought after filtration and processing in our brain. Our ego is normally how we present ourselves to our peers and what others would think of us. Our superego is our real thoughts that we keep to ourselves or may express anonymously or to only our very closest friends. Our ID, however, is our completely unfiltered thoughts and desires that may not even be known to us. This relates to Sigmund Freud’s writings because these relate directly to our dreams. Our dreams are normally our ID or superego and Sigmund Freud addresses this, despite not using the actual terminology. Dreams themselves are also a topic discussed in psychology so obviously it also relates to psychology in that sense. Overall, Freud makes great use of other psychologists and writer’s thoughts throughout the book to help support his points. He also goes in-depth about all topics he discusses to further support each statement he makes. There aren’t really any arguments in his writings as he was one of the first people to write about this topic in depth, however he uses other writings from his peers presents arguments and counter arguments for everything he discusses so that the reader can see from both