Freud believed that the motivating force of a dream, is wish fulfillment. Dreams may be a way to gratify oral fixations not fully met during the oral stage of Freuds personality formation. Or issue of power and control or struggles with love may manifest in dreams. Thought s repressed during the day also have a way of being fulfilled in your dreams. Freud believed that every imagery and symbol that appears in a dream have a sexual connotation. Anxiety dreams were seen as a sign of repressed sexual impulses In keeping with the Freudian school of thought, it may also be helpful to use free association as a way to derive the significance and meaning for a particular dream symbol F Critique There are many critics on Freuds take on dreams. Freud lived in a sexually repressed Victorian era. His preoccupation with sexual imagery may therefore been a product of the times the culture or his own relationship/conflict with sex 4 Topic for discussion o What do you think the significance of studying dreams is? Several hypotheses have been mentioned in the passage Try to name two of themFreud believed that the motivating force of a dream, is wish fulfillment. Dreams may be a way to gratify oral fixations not fully met during the oral stage of Freud's personality formation. Or issues of power and control or struggles with love may manifest in dreams. Thoughts repressed during the day also have a way of being fulfilled in your dreams. Freud believed that every imagery and symbol that appears in a dream have a sexual connotation. Anxiety dreams were seen as a sign of repressed sexual impulses. In keeping with the Freudian school of thought, it may also be helpful to use free association as a way to derive the significance and meaning for a particular dream symbol.  Critique: There are many critics on Freud's take on dreams. Freud lived in a sexually repressed Victorian era. His preoccupation with sexual imagery may therefore been a product of the times, the culture or his own relationship/conflict with sex.  Topic for Discussion ◆ What do you think the significance of studying dreams is? ◆ Several hypotheses have been mentioned in the passage. Try to name two of them