PSY 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Dream Interpretation, Psych, Universal Rule
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Moving to unconscious material: once we accept the freudian notion that our mind"s that and most important component is unconscious and therefore beyond our consciousness, another question soon becomes evident. Conversely, how important it is for psychologists to know about unconscious aspects of behavior if those things remain inaccessible to our inspection. He held that strong individual impulses do not automatically disappear when pushed out of consciousness. Therefore, a freudian psychologist can use seven techniques to obtain unconscious knowledge. Dreams: freud named dreams the "royal route to the unconscious," writing the. Interpretation of dreams in 1900, proposing for the first time a psychological theory to clarify the significance of those nighttime dramas. According to freud, dreams give human desires a stage for expression. They"re just a kind of llment of wish fulfilment. To put it another way, the things and events we want are reflected in our dreams.
