PHL290H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Electra Complex
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Daydream is a satisfaction of a wish (either sexual or ambitious) No uncoscious wish can be satisfied consciously according to freud. Page 266: trying to satisfy wish through dream, but did not fully succeed. We have conflictions in normal life like wanting to do something, but not wanting to hurt someones feelings. We have this same kind of conflict in our dreams. There are two parts of you, there is one wish u approve and one you disaprove, you satisfy the one of which you disaprove. I have a wish to eat cheescake, i supress it (unconscious). My dream is the satisfaction of that wish. Adult dreams are distorted and children"s dream are exactly of what they want. 154: children have sexual wishes according to freud. The sexual wishes that children have is oedipus complex. He tries everything to avoid it, but it still happens. Freud interpreted it as everything to do with sex.
