Aristotle's Theories On The Meaning Of Dreams
Dreams have always seemed to have a bearing on humans waking lives. The origins and meaning by be given different focus in the different theories, but in the main it is agreed that our dreams have some level of effect on each of us.
In the 1950s the focus was that the dreams played out our worries and anxieties ignoring the dreams messages as coincidence.
Plato theory on our dreams was that they have their own intelligence and that it filled our dreams with faith and beauty as well as truth and hope.
Plato also stated that we all have a shadow side that also is allowed to come in to play in our dreams. This idea was to become the starting point of dream psychology and how dreams are interpreted. One of Plato’s students Aristotle theory was …show more content…
Collectively Aristotle believes these three souls accepts make up a person’s mind.
Although even in our modern days of medical advances in to the working of the human brain the mind can still not been pin pointed.
In the 1900 the Gestalt School in Germany and the American behaviourist believed that we see things as a whole before we start to break them down to lean about them. These theorised with the focus on the conscious mind.
Freud and his student Jung could not agree on the mind and also had different views on the meaning of dreams. Their focus was on the unconsciousness. Freud believed that we are all driven by basic survival instincts making our dreams to connect to sex and repressed desires. If a person has to repress their libido then they would experience ‘personality conflictions’ Freud put these two accepts of the person together to create Eros life instincts.
Jung believed that we are all basically good and its lives circumstances and trauma that have an influence over our thought and actions. Jung believed that we are all connected and within this collective conscience we shares memories of ancestry and past memories.
These can be expresses through the form of myths , and can be placed in to archetypes
In the 1950s the focus was that the dreams played out our worries and anxieties ignoring the dreams messages as coincidence.
Plato theory on our dreams was that they have their own intelligence and that it filled our dreams with faith and beauty as well as truth and hope.
Plato also stated that we all have a shadow side that also is allowed to come in to play in our dreams. This idea was to become the starting point of dream psychology and how dreams are interpreted. One of Plato’s students Aristotle theory was …show more content…
Collectively Aristotle believes these three souls accepts make up a person’s mind.
Although even in our modern days of medical advances in to the working of the human brain the mind can still not been pin pointed.
In the 1900 the Gestalt School in Germany and the American behaviourist believed that we see things as a whole before we start to break them down to lean about them. These theorised with the focus on the conscious mind.
Freud and his student Jung could not agree on the mind and also had different views on the meaning of dreams. Their focus was on the unconsciousness. Freud believed that we are all driven by basic survival instincts making our dreams to connect to sex and repressed desires. If a person has to repress their libido then they would experience ‘personality conflictions’ Freud put these two accepts of the person together to create Eros life instincts.
Jung believed that we are all basically good and its lives circumstances and trauma that have an influence over our thought and actions. Jung believed that we are all connected and within this collective conscience we shares memories of ancestry and past memories.
These can be expresses through the form of myths , and can be placed in to archetypes