Freud's Interpretation Of Dreams

For my final project I will be doing studies that are derived from Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams. A well know phrase Freud himself coined was that dreams are the “Royal Road to the Unconscious”. Children’s dreams, as Freud had put it, where easy to understand because they have not built up any defenses or resistances to “mask” the motive behind their dream. Adults however, Freud theorized that they expressed unobtainable wishes, and being adults have built up a resistance or put a “mask” on making it more challenging to interpret the meaning of adults wishes thus hiding its true meaning. Freud believed that since people are asleep, when they are dreaming, they have their guard down and because of this, peoples dreams will reveal repressed wishes and desires, that otherwise could not be accessed in waking life.
Because of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, recent studies have shown that unlike many of Freud’s ideas about psychology, Freud’s hypothesis about dreams, that dreams are a motivated phenomena, have shown support for this. Freud had two distinct types of dreams, Latent dreams and Manifest dreams. Manifest dreams are dreams the people will remember the next morning, all thought it may seem to be a dream of random unidentifiable attributes, but have some form of a story all the same. The Latent dreams is the meaning hidden in the content of the manifest dream that are discovered later. The latent dream in the manifest dream is what psychologist’s seek to