... desires. He noted that some dreams represent attempts to master a past traumatic experience. Yet he always held that dreams contain both surface events and hidden personal thoughts. Freud's theory of how dreams work has had a huge cultural impact over the past century, as it also attracted intense criticism. J. Allan Hobson ... of truth; the paucity of the means (therapeutic, journalistic, etc.) we pursue it with; and the unreliability of narrative -- the stories we tell to pin it down, which are always incomplete and (consciously or otherwise) self-serving" (Seligman). Malcolm gives th...

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