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A 5 page research paper that examines the differences between Freud, Jung and Perls on the meaning and interpretation of dreams Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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psyche seeing human behavior as driven, primarily, by repressed sexual urges. His follower, Carl Jung, took a similar stance, but broke with Freud over disagreement concerning the centrality of sex
to human motivation. Jung felt that human character could be cast in a more favorable light and that people are motivated by a desire toward continuous self realization (Holme 424).
In the twentieth century, Fritz Perls developed a more humanistic approach to aiding disturbed patients with Gestalt therapy, which is more holistic than the approaches of Freud or Jung. The
following discussion will examine how each of these men regarded the interpretation of dreams. Freud first became interested in dreams when his patients mentioned their dreams (Dreams). This
led Freud to the conclusion that the dreams of his patients related to their psycho pathological conditions. In his text, Erotic Wishes and Dreams, Freud indicates his belief that when
we are awake, our sexual desires are repressed, and that these desires are released at night through dreaming (Dreams). Freud felt that dreams have two meanings. The
first meaning being the manifest content, the dream itself. The second meaning being the latent content, which is not always
obvious. It is the latent content that offer the "meaning" of the dream, as the manifest content often does not make sense to the dreamer on awakening (Dreams). Freud assessed
the meaning of his patients dreams through free association, that is, saying a word and the patient responding with the first word that pops into his or her head.
Freud believed that dreams result from a three step process, in which the first step is displacement (Dreams) This is when the psychic energy of the latent content is displaced
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