He feels that the injection was done carelessly probably with a not so clean needle. M points, out that Irma’s conditions was because of an infection.Īt this point, Freud remembers that his friend Otto had given Irma an injection earlier (Thurschwell, 2009). M looked very different from his usual self he walked with a limp and was very pale (Brauckhoff, 2008). M and his friend Otto to inspect Irma further. He goes ahead to ask about how she is feeling, Irma explains that she has pains and Freud checks her to confirm (Brauckhoff, 2008). The dream starts with a big hall full of people where Freud sees Irma and goes to talk to her. Irma dream is the first work of Freud where he did a self-analysis based on dreams and their latent meaning (Boothby, 2001). Additionally, dreams give individuals the opportunity to meet desires that they are unable to meet in their conscious minds. Discussionįrom Freud Sigmund’s dream “Irma Dream” and “Mulholland Drive”, it is clear that all dreams have some components that are not manifest, but can be understood by interpretation of the dream (Brauckhoff, 2008). For instance, driving a car in a dream may mean that one will be travelling soon (Boothby, 2001). There is always more than we see in a dream. He adds that the latent content of a dream overshadows the manifest content.
Manifest meaning is what actually happens in a dream while the latent meaning is the hidden meaning that we find out when we analyze dreams.įreud Sigmund concentrates more on the latent meaning because it gives a gateway to understanding psychology of the dreamer (Freud, 1900). Dreams help people to satisfy desires that they were not able to meet in the conscious life, which eventually leads to a relaxed mind and good sleep.įreud speaks about the manifest and latent meaning of a dream. Therefore, dreams play a major role in ensuring that people are able to sleep well without internal or external disturbance (Freud, 1900).
This is because if an individual is faced with negative emotions and thoughts their sleep will be disturbed forcing them to wake up. For an individual to keep on sleeping the negative emotions, unconscious desires, restricted thoughts have to be concealed in some way (Freud, 1953). These internal stimuli include the other day’s activities, frustrations, fears, and negative emotions by formulating dreams (Freud, 1953).įreud’s work was mainly concerned with internal stimuli. In addition, the mind keeps internal stimuli in check by ensuring that some desires are not aroused.
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