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Dreams and Freudian Theory

            
            
             Dreams have been objects of boundless fascination and mystery .
             for humankind since the beginning of time. These nocturnal vivid .
             images seem to arise from some source other than our ordinary .
             conscious mind. They contain a mixture of elements from our own .
             personal identity which we recognize as familiar along with a quality .
             of `otherness' in the dream images that carries a sense of the strange .
             and eerie. The bizarre and nonsensical characters and plots in dreams .
             point to deeper meanings and contain rational and insightful comments .
             on our waking situations and emotional experiences. The ancients .
             thought that dreams were messages from the gods.
             The cornerstone of Sigmund Freud's infamous psychoanalysis is .
             the interpretation of dreams. Freud called dream-interpretation the .
             "via reggia," or the "royal road" to the unconscious, and it is his .
             theory of dreams that has best stood the test of time over a period of .
             more than seventy years (Many of Freud's other theories have been .
             disputed in recent years). .
             Freud reportedly admired Aristotle's assertion that dreaming .
             is the activity of the mind during sleep (Fine, 1973). It was perhaps .
             the use of the term activity that Freud most appreciated in this brief .
             definition for, as his understanding of the dynamics of dreaming .
             increased, so did the impression of ceaseless mental activity .
             differing in quality from that of ordinary waking life (Fine, 1973). .
             In fact, the quality of mental activity during sleep differed so .
             radically from what we take to be the essence of mental functioning .
             that Freud coined the term "Kingdom of the Illogical" to describe that .
             realm of the human psyche. This technique of dream-interpretation .
             allowed him to penetrate (Fine, 1973). .
             We dream every single night whether it stays with us or not. .
             It is a time when "our minds bring together material which is kept .
             apart during out waking hours" (Anonymous, 1991).


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4. History and Science of Dream Interpretation

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6. Frankenstein

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7. Frankenstein

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