PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Freud believed that the content of dreams is related to wish fulfillment and suggested that dreams have two types of content: manifest content and latent content. The manifest content is the actual literal subject matter of the dream while the latent content is the underlying meaning of these symbols.

Detailed explanation-2: -The manifest content of dreams is the literal images and actions that occurred and remembered the following day. The latent content of dreams is the unconscious desires or elements that those images represent.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dreams are wish fulfillments. Freud’s most well-known theory, wish fulfillment, is the idea that when wishes can’t or won’t be fulfilled in our waking lives, they are carried out in dreams. Even anxious or punishing dreams have their roots in wish fulfillment, according to Freud. Dreams are fleeting.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the Freudian theory, the dream, as recalled upon awakening (set of images, emotions, characters and situations, etc.), represents only the manifest and deceptive version of the real dream, that is, the latent content which consists mostly of unconscious wishes.