PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Sigmund Freud’s theory of dreams suggests that dreams represent unconscious desires, thoughts, wish fulfillment, and motivations. 4 According to Freud, people are driven by repressed and unconscious longings, such as aggressive and sexual instincts.

Detailed explanation-2: -Freud’s fundamental conclusion about dreams is that “wish-fulfillment is the meaning of each and every dream, and hence there can be no dreams besides wishful dreams.” Further, dreams are not meaningless but are in fact “constructed by a highly elaborate intellectual activity."

Detailed explanation-3: -Freud said that, “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.” He meant that because dreams are such an unconscious activity they give an almost direct insight into the workings of the unconscious mind.

Detailed explanation-4: -It is the most well known – and perhaps infamous – theory of dreams in the Western world. At the turn of last century, Sigmund Freud published his book, The Interpretation of Dreams, arguing that our dreams are nothing more than wishes that we are looking to fulfil in our waking lives.