Dream Work

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Dream Work
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Latent Dream

• The latent dream is the hidden dream that has
  been processed by the censor and represents your
  true unconscious desires, feelings and conflicts.

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Dream Work

• Censor
• -Mechanism of your Psyche that edits your latent
  dream.
• Creates acceptable dreams from your primal
  thoughts so you do not wake up from disturbing
  images.
• Creates dream work

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• Displacement
• -Mechanism of the censor that shifts unacceptable
  thoughts to acceptable thoughts. (Symbols)
• - You unconsciously desire to kill your
• teachers, but dreaming
  this will cause
• you to wake up. Thus you
  dream
• about a plane crashing
  into the
• school.
• -Your unacceptable impulse is acted out
• in a manner that is less threatening to you.
  (You accomplished your heinous goal without the
  guilt and prison sentence.)

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• Projection
• Mechanism of the censor that shapes unacceptable
  thoughts into acceptable forms. (Symbols)
• You are in a serious relationship but desire
  living the promiscuous life. Dreaming about
  having relations with many different partners
  will cause you to wake up, so you dream of your
  single friend dancing with several different
  people at the homecoming dance.
• You project your unacceptable impulse onto your
  friend

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• Condensation
• -Process whereby two or more images or elements
  combine to form a single composite image. (Theme
  creation)
• - Your single friend is dancing with the pilots
  of the airplane which causes it to crash into
  your school during yesterdays in-service.

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• Manifest Dream
• -The dream you actually have.
• - The analyst helps the patient in understanding
  the latent dream through free association and
  interpretation of the theme and symbols of the
  manifest dream.