According to Freud, every dream represents a wish fulfillment. Dreams are representative of the imaginary fulfillment of a wish or impulse in early childhood, before such wishes have been repressed. The dream images represent the unconscious wishes or thought disguised through symbolization and other distorting mechanisms. Freud has postulated the existence of a "censor" which excluded unconscious wishes during conscious states and which in sleep compelled the transformation of unconscious wishes into the disguised conscious form of the dream as experienced by the sleeper. Freud assumed that this "censor" was in the service of the ego: that is, he considered it as self preservative function which was in accord with his belief that reason and volition presided over these functions. With the development of ego psychology, the activities of the censor, along with the manifestations of repression, displacement, and symbolism in waking life, have been included among those functions of the ego and superego which may lie outside the individual's conscious awareness. check out link in BIO for Freud awesome t-shirt or hoodie @medicalcortex #medstudents #medstudent #nurse #sleepdeprived #sleep #sleeptime #f4f #l4l #premed #usmle #surgery #nightshift #neurosurgeon #neurology #dreams #dream #freud #psychology #psychiatry #psychedelic
