Interpretation Of Dreams
(Sigmund Freud)
Each and everyone's personality is formed from two parts: the conscious, 'rational' side of us, defined as Ego, and the unconscious, the 'irrational' side of us, defined as Es, or, in German, Id. The unconscious is the centre of instinctive impulses, repressed by the conscious, in order to avoid an imbalance or distortion in the psyche, with the use of a 'censor' that is defined as Super-Ego. When, for instance, you are in a school lesson and you are suddenly seized by the urge to bite into a ham sandwich, the Super-Ego intervenes and stops the action of biting into a ham sandwich, since according to society the action of biting into a sandwich during a lesson would be impolite. Despite this, during sleep, the 'barriers' imposed by the Super-Ego diminish, in such a way that what is present in the unconscious can pass into the conscious through a very effective channel: the dream, which is none other than the manifestation of our own desires repressed by the Super-Ego and transferred to the unconscious. The process by which the dream operates is, in reality, a trick that the unconscious plays when faced with the Super-Ego, because its 'barriers' are weaker, but not completely lowered. The trick occurs thanks to the 'apparent meaning' of a dream, behind which hides a 'real meaning'. The 'apparent meaning' is the meaning used by the unconscious to trick the conscious, however, as explained, the 'real meaning' of the dream is another and resides in the different symbols and different attitudes which, apparently, are judged as insignificant. In fact, the 'apparent meaning' serves as a distraction for the conscious, useful for transferring an alternative idea: it's like when, for example, a football player 'does a number' to distract their adversary in order to help their team-mate escape from their marker.
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