The Interpretation of Dreams | Themes
The Unconscious
Freud makes an important distinction between the conscious and the unconscious mind. The concept of the ‘‘unconscious’’ was not itself Freud’s invention and had already been in use at the time of his writing. However, Freud developed his theory of the unconscious far beyond any previous understanding of it. He makes a distinction between ‘‘manifest,’’ or conscious, dream content—the surface- level content of the dream, which can be described by the dreamer upon waking—and the ‘‘latent,’’ or unconscious, ‘‘dream...
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