Sigmund Freud is regarded as the of psychoanalysis. His work

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has been in many areas but he is perhaps best known for 

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having drawn our to dreams, which he believed were clues to inner

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conflicts. The fact that a dream is a disguised expression of what is

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happening in the unconscious mind means that it is difficult for the dreamer

to understand its . Freud believed that the sleeping mind resorted

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to a whole range of unconscious wishes in forms which would prevent

the dreamer from having any of their true nature. In Freud's

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view, interpreting the meaning of the dream required a psychoanalyst with

an expert of how dreams disguise desires. The psychoanalyst's

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lack of personal in the dream would enable him to see the dream

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objectively.

According to Freud, dreams use a symbolic language quite

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different from that of waking life, but the fact is there is no hard

for believing that dreams really do reflect our unconscious wishes.

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Nevertheless, Freud made a major contribution to twentieth-century

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thought and many useful insights into psychological processes have been

gained through his work