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Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is the name applied to a specific method of investigating unconscious mental processes and a form of psychotherapy. The term also refers to the systematic structure of psychoanalytic theory, which is based on the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
The technique of psychoanalys ....
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.... dreams as serving to protect sleep against disturbing impulses arising from within and related to early life experiences. Thus, unacceptable impulses and thoughts, called the latent dream content, are transformed into a conscious, although no longer immediately comprehensible, experience called the manifest dream. Knowledge of these unconscious mechanisms permits the analyst to reverse the so-called dream work or the process by which the latent dream is transformed into the manifest dream, and through dream interpretation, to recognize its underlying meaning.
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