Dreams have played an important role in human life at all times. Someone considers them to be the journeys of the soul that has left the body, for someone it is simply a consequence of the processing of the information received by the brain during the day. Psychoanalysis also offers its own understanding of the nature of dreams.
The famous Sigmund Freud laid the foundation for psychoanalysis as a science of studying the unconscious. It was he who showed that the roots of many human problems should be sought in the hidden part of his consciousness. One of the ways to study the unconscious, Freud considered the study of patients' dreams.
According to the classical theory of psychoanalysis, in a dream, a person falls into a special reality, composed of various facets of his personality - namely, "It", "I" and "Super-I". Under these terms, psychoanalysis understands the unconscious, ego and moral attitudes of a person, the result of life in society. Also in the dream there are images of "imago" - this term Freud designated the unconscious prototypes of people significant to him, primarily parents, brothers, sisters.
According to Freud, imago images are formed in early childhood and remain in the mind of a person for life, exerting a powerful influence on him. Each such image can be perceived positively or negatively, which makes a person unconsciously broadcast this attitude to all similar objects in his life.
When a person falls asleep, all three facets of his personality are reflected in his dreams. Moreover, according to Gustav Jung, who developed the theory of psychoanalysis, dreams also contain archetypes that reflect the collective unconscious of all mankind. As a result, the dream is filled with a huge number of images, which can only be correctly deciphered by a specialist psychoanalyst.
Thus, it can be stated that in a person's dreams all his internal conflicts are reflected. The more such conflicts, the darker and more restless the dreams. Conversely, in a harmonious person, most dreams are calm and pleasant. Analyzing a person's dreams, one can say a lot about his personality, identify what worries him. After that, it becomes possible to provide effective assistance. That is why dreams are of great importance for psychoanalysis, since they fully reveal all the inner secrets and conflicts of a person.
Sometimes it happens that a person does not see dreams at all - more precisely, he simply does not remember that they were. Psychoanalysis explains this situation by depression and fear of the future - a person does not want to think about what awaits him, does not want to understand his internal contradictions, which leads to an unconscious blocking of information about dreams.
