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Question
CBSEENPS12041579

How dream interpretation is used in psycho-analysis to elicit the nature of intrapsychic conflict?

Solution

According to Freud, dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

The client is asked to write down his/her dreams. Psycho-analysts believe that dreams satisfy the repressed libidinal desires which get many in the dreams in disguised and symbolic form.

The images of dreams are symbols which signify intra-psychic forces.

These symbols are interpreted and the client develops awareness with his/her unfulfilled desires and conflicts at conscious level.