Friday, March 13, 2009
In response to Emily’s thoughts, I think someone who has knowledge of the Freudian interpretation of dreams, when lucid dreaming, would try to control the manifest content of the dream in such a way as to escape the normal psychoanalytic analysis of dreams. The conscious would direct the person to switch the contents so that the usual analysis would not point to the actual anxiety-causing factor in the unconscious. The person would be aware of the effects of displacement, condensation, etc., and realizing how the manifest content would refer to the latent, would direct the content to be something else. The shifts and switches a lucid dreamer makes, however, probably also stem from what is going on in the unconscious, only adding another layer of repressed thoughts to analyzed. Knowing that the subject was lucid dreaming, Freud would probably analyze the dream deeper, ultimately leading to the true latent content. In Freudian analysis of dreams, I don’t think one would ever be able to escape being analyzed in these terms.
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