Dream interpretation
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Dream interpretation is the process of assigning meaning to dreams. In many ancient societies, such as those of Egypt and Greece, dreaming was considered a supernatural communication or a means of div
Tom Paine's Nightly Pest, a James Gillray cartoon of political activist Thomas Paine dreaming of faceless judges unfurling scrolls listing charges and punishments
The ancient Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh (Tablet V pictured) contains numerous examples of dream interpretation.
Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dream (watercolor circa 1896–1902 by James Tissot)
Freud's couch, London, 2004
Wish fulfillment
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Wish fulfillment is the satisfaction of a desire through an involuntary thought process. It can occur in dreams or in daydreams, in the symptoms of neurosis, or in the hallucinations of psychosis. Thi
Dream interpretation
…Dreams (Die Traumdeutung; literally "dream-interpretation"). In The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud argued that all dream content is disguised wish-fulfillment (later in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud would discuss dreams which do not appear to be wish-fulfillment). According to Freud, the instigation…
The biblical patriarch Jacob saw the ladder led to heaven, but Freud might have called it a phallic symbol.
Wish fulfillment (Wunscherfüllung) was coined by Sigmund Freud in The Interpretations of Dreams.