Children's dreams

Context: Important concepts

• Oneiric disfigurement

• Children's dreams and adult dreams.

Presented by: -Catalina Penagos -Dylan Ruiz

children's

dreams

Thesis

"The dreams we are focusing on are found in children. They are brief, clear, coherent, easily understood, uniquevocal and, above all, indubitable"(Freud,1915, p.115).

Arguments

• "For the understanding of these dreams no analysis, no application of a technique is required. It is not necessary to ask anything to the child who tells his dream" (Freud, 1915, p.115).

• "We see that these children's dreams are not meaningless; they are full-fledged, understandable psychic acts" (Freud, 1915, p.116).

• "These dreams are devoid of disfigurement; therefore they do not need any interpretative work. Manifest dream and latent dream coincide here" (Freud, 1915, p.117).

• "A child's dream is the reaction to a day's experience, which has left behind a regret, a longing, an unfulfilled desire" (Freud, 1915, p.117).

1. "The dream, as a reaction to the psychic stimulus, must have the value of processing it, so that it eliminates it and sleep can continue" (Freud, 1915, 118).

2. "Since the exciter of the dream is a desire, and its fulfillment is the content of the dream, this constitutes one of the main characters of the dream" (Freud, 1915, 118).

• "The comparison of the dream with the failed operation. In the latter we distinguish a disturbing and a disturbed tendency" (Freud, 1915, 119).

• "Now, these day dreams are really wish fulfillments, fulfillments of erotic desires or ambitions"(Freud, 1915, 119).

Conclusions

Children's dreams tend to be more concrete and focused on their day-to-day experience while adults' dreams may be more complex and symbolic, reflecting deeper conflicts and concerns.

The dream does not simply express a thought, but a wish fulfilled as a hallucinatory experience, not only children have infantile dreams.

Desire as the engine of dreams

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