Freud sigmund dream analysis teeth

Everyone is interested in dreaming—in my introductory psychology course, it is always one of my students’ favorite topics.

But do dreams really mean anything?

Psychologists are genuinely divided over the function and meaning of dreaming. Some psychologists think that dreams are nothing more than the result of random brain activity that occurs while we are sleeping, while others accept the perspective of people such as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung that dreams can reveal a person’s deepest unconscious wishes and desires.

In a nutshell, psychoanalysts such as Freud and Jung believe that we disguise disturbing impulses by substituting more acceptable symbolic objects to stand in for the latent content of our dreams.

Freudian Dream Symbols

Freud wrote about dreams in many different places, most notably in his book The Interpretation of Dreams.

According to Freud, the number of things represented by symbols in dreams is not great: The