Talk:Psychoanalytic dream interpretation

message: I've added the rewrite tag due to poor grammar and confusing phrases. I'll do what I can, but this article needs to be brought to the attention of WikiProject Psychology. —Viriditas | Talk 12:18, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

message: Why is this a separate article from _Dream interpretation_?  Why did neither of these articles show up when I searched for "dream interpretation"?  Is there a section _Ancient dream interpretation_ or something, and where can I find it?  CC.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.69.179.221 (talk) 15:44, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

message: Hello people working on this page for the APS-Wikipedia Initiative, or other editors, I feel that one thing that would really help this article is if you changed some of the sources into citations. Also, like previously stated, if you could link this page to some other pages on Wikipedia or other pages that would help a lot. The authors of Wikipedia have some great tutorials for both citations and linking pages that really helped me! If you need any help with this I will try to check this page regularly and answer any questions, good luck! Fredodin (talk) 04:51, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources and Citations  

message: Uhhh, whenever I have dreams, which is reasonably often, it is quite clear to me that I am asleep and having a dream, ie, that it is not "really" happening.  It is like "seeing a movie inside my own head whilst asleep". So no matter what injuries or deaths or violence happens in the dream, therefore, it is not "scary" because I "know" it is not "real". 
So I don't fit the definition. Does that make the definition "wrong"? Does it make me "weird"? Or some combination of both?
Old_Wombat (talk) 09:51, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "... experienced as a series of actual events". 

message: I worked on the citations to (hopefully) improve them.  I did not add anything that wasn't originally in the text as an in-text citation, but I changed all the citations to references at the bottom of the page.  The rest of the article still needs some work, but hopefully this helps.
Swimmergirlie  (talk)  08:40, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations

message: I used at one time to find it extraordinarily difficult to accustom readers to the distinction between the manifest content of dreams and the latent dream-thoughts. Again and again arguments and objections would be brought up based upon some uninterpreted dream in the form in which it had been retained in the memory, and the need to interpret it would be ignored. But now that analysts at least have become reconciled to replacing the manifest dream by the meaning revealed by its interpretation, many of them have become guilty offalling into another confusion which they cling to with equal obstinacy. They seek to find the essence of dreams in their latent content and in so doing they overlook the distinction between the latent dream-thoughts and the dream-work. At bottom, dreams are nothing other than a particular form of thinking, made possible by the conditions of the state of sleep. It is the dream-work which creates that form, and it alone is the essence of dreaming-the explanation of its peculiar nature. I say this in order to make it possible to assess the value of the notorious 'prospective purpose' of dreams. [See below, p. 579 f. n.] The fact that dreams concern themselves with attempts at solving the problems by which our mental life is faced is no more strange than that our conscious waking life should do so; beyond this it merely tells us that that activity can also be carried on in the preconscious-and this we already knew.Freud, Interpretation of Dreams, footnote 2 to page 506 of the Standard Edition
Freud was explicit that the true meaning of a dream is not derived from the latent content, but instead the dreamwork.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by HegelianPotato (talk • contribs) 05:21, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: "Disagreeing with Freud's view that the..."