Psychology 2011A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dream Interpretation, Collective Unconscious, Precognition

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2011A/B
• Professor: barus

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Experiential dream theory: dreams = meaningful. !1: weaving together waking life events with memories from the past into a story, something unpleasant or unusual may reoccur because it does not t into your. Saturday, february 18, 2017 idea of what should happen: freud"s psychoanalytic dream theory. Ful llment of wishes (usually things we really want, that are unaccepted) Changes content of dreams in symbolic ways to express inappropriate wishes. Dream work = repressing thoughts resurface to show what we really want. Manifest content: apparent content of the dream. Latent content: what the dream is really about: jungian dream theory. Symbols we see in dreams represent the activity or function of those deeper psyche, as it communicates to our reasonable logical mind. 4 part structure: exposition (setting, characters, time, development of the plot, culmination (something decisive happens or something changes completely, solution/result (produced by dream work) also called nal situation.