Psychology / Unit 3 Psych 0326 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Freud's Dream Theory
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The idea
Freud held that dreams express unconscious wishes, with manifest content disguising a latent meaning.
In practice
A dream of missing a train is interpreted as a disguised wish concerning an obligation the dreamer resents.
Where people slip
The theory generates interpretations for any dream, which is what places it outside falsifiable testing.
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