Comparing Sigmund Freud's Manifest And Latent Content Of
Sigmund Freud believed this was a way of escaping reality and spending this time to dream about our true desires. An average dream may not seem significant to us, however Freud scrutinized every detail in the dream as an underlying desire as wish fulfillment. Sigmund Freud states that all dreams contain latent content which symbolize one’s repressed wishes and underlying psychological desires. His analysis symbolized portions of the dream and separated the meaning of a dream into both manifest and latent content. Manifest content would be the surface materials within a dream, where it would be the first recollection and reaction from awakening (Watson 1916). He continues to explain this as a “ruse” where this manifest content is just a method
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Even though Irma’s injection is considered as an unappealing dream, Freud managed to analyze this as a sign for one of his underlying wishes. Initially, this dream may portray as a disturbing dream, but Freud clarifies that this is just the surface level, manifest content (Freud 1990). Freud continued to dissect the dream to discover the true meaning, which is deemed as the latent content. The manifest content of the dream was of Otto performing a mistake on Irma which caused many negative consequences. “His acceptance of it rests on misunderstanding, on his failure to replace the of the apparent content of dreams by their real meaning” (Freud 1990). Since manifest content is considered a misunderstanding to Freud, he analyzed further and reasoned that Otto’s mistake was to make Freud look like a better doctor in comparison. He egotistically accepted that this was the true meaning of the dream and did so by making others look incapable in order to outshine his fellow peers. To correlate the latent content to his own life, he understood that his internal wish was to be the best doctor especially when compared with his friends.
Sigmund Freud believed that all dreams had a latent wish fulfillment message. Many of Freud’s correlations between symbols and wish fulfillments are justified. However, in some scenarios his symbolism comes off as a forced representation of one’s wishes. I feel as though Freud tends to stretch some analyses too far by obliging it to apply to one’s life. He takes these universal variables and automatically symbolizes them as their “wish fulfillment”. I find his eagerness to defend the theory results in him exaggerating insignificant details within a
Even though Irma’s injection is considered as an unappealing dream, Freud managed to analyze this as a sign for one of his underlying wishes. Initially, this dream may portray as a disturbing dream, but Freud clarifies that this is just the surface level, manifest content (Freud 1990). Freud continued to dissect the dream to discover the true meaning, which is deemed as the latent content. The manifest content of the dream was of Otto performing a mistake on Irma which caused many negative consequences. “His acceptance of it rests on misunderstanding, on his failure to replace the of the apparent content of dreams by their real meaning” (Freud 1990). Since manifest content is considered a misunderstanding to Freud, he analyzed further and reasoned that Otto’s mistake was to make Freud look like a better doctor in comparison. He egotistically accepted that this was the true meaning of the dream and did so by making others look incapable in order to outshine his fellow peers. To correlate the latent content to his own life, he understood that his internal wish was to be the best doctor especially when compared with his friends.
Sigmund Freud believed that all dreams had a latent wish fulfillment message. Many of Freud’s correlations between symbols and wish fulfillments are justified. However, in some scenarios his symbolism comes off as a forced representation of one’s wishes. I feel as though Freud tends to stretch some analyses too far by obliging it to apply to one’s life. He takes these universal variables and automatically symbolizes them as their “wish fulfillment”. I find his eagerness to defend the theory results in him exaggerating insignificant details within a