Freud's On Dreams and Its Contributions to the History of Psychology

Freud's "On Dreams"
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Freud's "On Dreams"
Freud's work is studied, utilized, and practiced to illustrate how the human mind works, especially in states of unconsciousness and dreams. Freud was transparent, and his intentions were pure while formulating, testing, and applying his theories and ideologies to explain the nature of dreams among humans (Flynn, 2014, 22:00-22:45). The works and discoveries by Freud have helped eliminate information. In his research, Freud identified a significant information gap caused by wrong interpretations and misleading ideologies (Freud, 1915, p.109). Therefore, Freud intended to explain how dream or mental disorder occurs or reflects on people's behaviors and real life by making people lay down while journalizing details and patterns of their verbal feedback (Flynn, 2014, 02:34-03:50). Freud (1915) observed that human beings can only experience two unique sets of dreams, manifest and latent (p. 85). While exploring the latent dream, Freud argues that it is the simplest form, but their interpretations are complex and require explicit knowledge and information.
On the other hand, Freud observed that people only focus on the manifest dream since its experiences are often attached to the conscious part of the brain, and we can remember it even after waking up. Freud expressed various unconscious impulses, especially for the people he treated and those he knew and interacted with in real life. For instance, he revealed emotional impulse by linking his knowledge and theoretical finding to what happened in his interaction with friends. Freud concluded that most dreams are controlled by egoistic emotion, which entails how we treat or interact with colleagues and friends (Binswanger & Wittmann, 2019, p. 66). One of the unique behaviors of Freud is that he often took the position and experiences of his patient and tried to reflect it on his personal life. For instance, Freud did not condemn sexual orientation but argued that it can be classified under psycho-neurotic disorders. Freud took time to reflect on the social and emotional implications he would have if people condemned and rejected him for lack of sufficient knowledge of psychoanalysis (Freud, 1915, p. 67).
Notably, Freud’s new method achieved various objectives or changes in psychotherapeutic work with patients. According to Flynn 2014 (07:35- 08:05), the initial approach used by Freud focused significantly on using hypnosis to support various psychotherapeutic activities for patients with various needs. However, the initial approach was quickly abandoned by Freud for various limitations. Firstly, Freud observed that hypnosis was time-consuming and required long sessions to understand or reach the patients' subconscious parts of their brains. At the same time, Freud observed that the results of hypnosis were often unguaranteed due to the lack of cooperation among some patients. Therefore, psychoanalysis was the new approach. Nevertheless, Freud abandoned the hypnosis approach because it did not give patients the opportunity to retrieve or make the unconscious material conscious (Flynn, 2014, 18:13- 19:04).
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