Manifest Content Vs. Latent Content

Freud believed that dreams provided pivotal entries for the deeper workings of the mind. A dream simply, is a wish that a person has that is either suppressed or repressed (Wollheim). Many instances of dreams happen in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar that can provide insight on decisions made by the characters more specifically Brutus. When dreaming is apparent in the play what the characters are able to remember is considered “manifest” content. This gives the subject of the dream. For the character to understand the dream is must have a deep meaning in this case the content of that that dream is “latent.” These two contents of dreaming coincide with each other balancing each other making the relationship functional. Dreams have four categories in which the work that go condensation, displacement, representation, and lastly secondary revision (Wollheim). Condensation can be simplified in definition. . . the handling of names and words whilst in a dream. Dreams often wear a disguise as Freud suggests. Displacement has two parts in the functionality of a dream. First the dreams are centered away so they do not show importance and the second function of displacement is the actual dreams doing duties for element in dream thoughts (Wolheim). Imagery is strongly correlated with

To many people, dreams are the thoughts that occur while sleeping, having almost mystic qualities. For millennia the significance of dreams has escaped even the brightest of philosophers and intellectuals. Many people have speculated about why people dream and what meanings the dreams have but in recent times two theories have gained credibility in answering those questions. The first theory is Sigmund Freuds and the other is known as the cognitive theory of dreams also known as biological determinism.

I had the same experience, though I was older. When I was 6-year-old, my grandpa passed away, while my mother and I were in another state in Iran. I was one of his favorite granddaughters. Also, he is the first image of the aged man who is reading a book in my childhood memory. Whole my family believes that I got my passion of reading after him. His death and the ceremonies are one of my worst childhood memories. My mother constantly cried and I didn’t participate to the funeral like Rad, but I was in all the ceremonies in which everybody was crying and moaning. Because I didn’t want to bother my mother who was grieving, I decided not to tell her that I was seeing nightmare in which everybody died except me. I used to feel constantly that something bad is going to happen. It took me several years to find a way to be more positive and move on in my life. However, it is really hard for me to accept other people’s

When I got my family was around our wooden table. My dad on his soft voice said “ I don’t think your grandpa will go through one more night, you need to call him” he cried. I felt like I couldn’t do it, felt so week and a huge hole in my stomach, something I’ve never felt before, I grabbed the phone and when I was about to call, the phone ringed, I passed the phone to my dad, It was my aunt sobbing and barely able to speak, then she said “ he passed away, I’m sorry honey” I couldn’t believe it I didn’t even had the chance to say

The next dream I recalled started with a stranger asking to give me a ride home at school. I went through my normal schedule throughout the whole day and almost every class, this teenager would walk up to me and ask to give me a ride home. I started to get frustrated and finally agreed, even though I said yes, he would not stop asking. The bell rang and it was finally time to leave school. This guy drove me home and dropped me off, I went in my house and got ready to go to work.

The latent content is the underlying, hidden part of the dream that holds the true meaning of the unconscious desires (Solms, 2000). The process by which the latent content is transformed into the disguised manifest content is what Freud referred to as the dream work (Sharpe, 1988). The dream work can disguise the latent views through the following four mechanisms: ‘condensation’ (the condensing of multiple thoughts into one), ‘displacement’ (replaces a latent element by a concealed trivial reference to it e.g. your mother is represented as a cat), ‘symbolism’ (which transforms thoughts into visual elements) followed by a process of ‘secondary revision’ in which the dreaming mind takes all these distorted elements and organises them into a more comprehensible format (Schredl, 2008)

Dreams are incredible when you learn what they are mean and why we dream at all. They come in many categories and our for granted by many, but as known are for our benefit and should not be taken as anything

My father came to U.S every year to work. Most of the time spent with my mother and my brothers. I remember when was time for my father to come to the United State and left my family because of work, it was the hardest for me, well not only for me but also for my family. Every time that I saw my father to say goodbye, my behavior changed. Since was the only girl of four brothers. I was most of the time with him, but he always treated all siblings equally. He returned every year to visit my family. The hardest part of my life, started one day when he started to did not feel well, something wrong was with his feet, that he could not even walk and it was sad thing, seeing my father sick, he could not even walk, but he always told me “daughter I am good don’t worry, everything its fine” well that words made me feel better, I knew that he was lying. However, my mind thought positive. All started on a Tuesday, I was eating in the kitchen with one of my brothers, we heard that my mother was calling my brother. She was screaming and my brother runs. Then I went to check if everything was fine, I saw that two of my brothers were trying to open the door of one of the rooms. My mother saw me there and she told me “go away” I saw their behaviors was not good, was scared, but I stayed with her. My brother finally opened the door. My father was trying to commit suicide. After, I saw my father trying to do that, just run, hug him and cried with him, I remember to

I love how you explained the theories. I agree that latent best explains our dreams because of the way it can connect to our lives. If someone is really depressed about something, I feel that they will be more likely to have a sad dream than a happy one. So latent connects with the way I feel dreams are formed.

In Inception, when the chemist who was dreaming yusuf, needed to go to the bathroom after drinking heavily before going into the dream, there was heavy raining inside the dream which was a symbol representing his desire to use the bathroom. Another case of this was where in the second layer of the dream, when arthur body in the first layer was falling, it caused an avalanche inside the 3rd layer of the dream, which is also another symbol. The manifest and latent content is shown. Using the first example, the manifest content would be the rain, while the latent content is the chemist need to go to the

Claire and I had just come home after tennis practice. When we walked into our apartment we saw that our mom had made a huge fancy meal for us, and I had a small feeling that something was up. My mom looked at me with eyes that looked somehow guilty, but everything seemed fine I guess. After we finished eating we were very tired, so Claire and I went to our separate rooms. Not long after laying down, my dad came in and told me we needed to talk about something. He wanted to talk to me and Claire separately, so we walked downstairs to a private community room in our apartment. He had never done this before and I didn’t know what was wrong, so my heart began pounding loudly in my chest. When I sat down and he told me the news, the pounding stopped. My heart sank. He said that our family couldn’t afford to go to Cathedral anymore, so my sister and I would have to switch schools and attend Sartell High School that year. I walked upstairs slowly afterwards and fell on the floor in my room. I stared at the ceiling waiting for Claire to be told. I don’t think I really believed what my father said to me at the time. I tried not to think. I just

Dreams are very unique and many people have theorized about what a dream 's meaning or purpose is, and what affects them. In most present day studies, more vivid dreams have been linked to the stage of sleep called REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. REM dreams are emotional, bizarre, and sometimes so vivid we may confuse them with reality. Most commonly, a dream’s story line incorporates traces of previous day’s experiences and preoccupations. Unless a person is awakened during REM stage of sleep or the dream is exceedingly vivid or intense, most people don’t remember anything about their dreams during REM sleep. This is likely due to the fact that during REM sleep, our brain essentially turns off the ability to encode,or create, new memories.

First, to fully understand where we are going when we are talking about dreams we first need to understand fully the meaning of consciousness and the varying levels that exists in the human brain. Consciousness is a concept explained by psychologists as the awareness of our environment

Dreams are a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person’s mind during sleep. Everyone dreams, whether they remember it or not. The real question is why some people remember their dreams and others do not? The art of remembering dreams is influenced by the first few minutes after waking, the health of a person, environmental, and biological factors. A person has a large impact on their ability to recall dreams along with what they dream about, even though many people do not know about this.

Dreams are “hallucinations of the sleeping mind” (Loftus & Ketcham). Dreams can be very vivid, loud, and even emotional. This is why it is easy to confuse them with reality. Dreams are kind of like taking all of a person’s wishes and emotions and putting them all in a little “shadow world” (Bynum) when they go to sleep at night. “What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.” (Freud). A person may be experiencing an emotion or wishing for something without even realizing it at all. Dreams can sometimes show a person how they are truly feeling without even their own awareness of these feelings or wishes. A lot of a person’s reality and emotions are used in their dreams, however, this is not always the case. Dreams can also be extremely bizarre, confusing, and even repetitive. This is where the interpretation of dreams comes into action. Many people find it hard to believe that when they have a dream over and over again that it does not mean anything. These types of dreams are called recurring dreams. Recurring dreams happen