S3 - Components

• Dreams and fulfilment


  • All dreams were unconscious fulfilment of wishes
  • Dreams are symbolic
  • Latent content - hidden/unconscious content. Symbolic
  • Manifest contest - Actual content STORYLINE
• Dreamwork

  • Latent - manifest
  • Applied to repressed wishes = dream content
  • Displacement - projection (Patient resentful of sister-in-law refered to dog in dreams and strangled)
  • Symbolization - abstract concepts synbolised
• Role of the therapist

  • Reverse dreamwork process
  • Decode manifest - latent
  • Uncover unconscious
  • Gain trust, remain neutral, process of transference, leads to cathortic effect