In Freudian Dream Research
In Freudian dream research, content is both latent and manifest in a dream that is, the hidden interpretation of the dream and the dream itself as it is recalled. Throughout different stages of sleep, dreams manifest the involuntary events within the mind. Sigmund Freud, a psychologist made remarkable approaches in the research and evaluation of dreams throughout the initial part of the twentieth century. Freud’s book the Interpretation of Dreams (1990) utilized an evolutionary biological view to deduce that these night time visions are a result of one’s personal psyche. Following his psychoanalytic thesis, dreams like most mental experiences can be perceived through separate measures: manifest and latent. This paper attempts to describe the manifest content and the latent content of one’s dream and analyzing the dream using Freud’s Wish Fulfillment and Emotional Assimilation.
The Manifest Content
The manifest content can be expounded as the data that the awoken individual recalls experiencing. It comprises of all the parts of actual thoughts, content, and images within the dream that the person is cognitively perceive of upon waking from sleep. The latent content is connected to yet definitely dissimilar from manifest content. The latent content illustrates the unseen meaning of one’s unconscious desires, thoughts, and drives. The unconscious brain subdues what can be disclosed from the latent content in order to safeguard the person from rough feelings that are distinctly hard to cope with. In variation to the information simply recognizable, latent content is making up everything under the surface. Portrayed once again through iceberg imagery, the intensity of meaning that can be obtained from analyzing this layer can disclose deeper latent thoughts within a person’s unconscious.
Freud's Method of Free Association
The method of free association, actively used by Freud in interpreting dreams, usually begins with a psychoanalyst's investigation of a certain dream symbol followed by the beginning thought that automatically appears to a client's mind. Since I experience dreams regularly I attempted to "catch a dream" I often wake up between 4-5am in the morning and normally this is after a dream. Sometime the kind of sleep I have occurs at intervals and is characterized by body movement and faster breathing. One night I dreamed of going to the store, and while I was in the checkout line I realized that I was naked. I felt total embarrassment because I was in the public. The manifest content of that dream is the precise event: being naked at the store in the checkout line. The latent content of that dream are the deeper sense of the dream. Using Freud’s Emotional Assimilation Theory, the dream symbol of being naked in a public place normally represents the feelings of being exposed or one has been in an embarrassing situation recently.
Conclusion
In conclusion, In Freudian dream research, content is both latent and manifest in a dream that is, the hidden interpretation of the dream and the dream itself as it is recalled. Sigmund Freud, a psychologist made remarkable approaches in the research and evaluation of dreams throughout the initial part of the twentieth century. The manifest content can be expounded as the data that the awoken individual recalls experiencing and it comprises of all the parts of actual thoughts, content, and images within the dream that the person is cognitively perceive of upon waking from sleep. The latent content illustrates the unseen meaning of one’s unconscious desires, thoughts, and drives.
