The Interpretation of Dreams

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   Dreams are not just random images — Freud believed they hide desires and fears the waking mind refuses to admit directly.

   The Interpretation of Dreams · 1899

   Dreams are symbolic expressions of unconscious desires and fears.

   Freud compared the mind to an iceberg: only a small part shows above the surface as conscious thought, while a much bigger part stays hidden below. He believed that, at night, that hidden part finds a way to speak, disguised in strange symbols the dreamer must decode the next morning.

   “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”

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