Man produces symbols unconsciously and spontaneously, in the form of dreams. The unconscious aspect of any event is revealed to us in dreams, where it appears not as a rational thought but as a symbolic image. As a matter of history, it was the study of dreams that first enabled psychologists to investigate the unconscious aspect of conscious psychic events.
Whoever denies the existence of the unconscious or say that there is no unconscious, merely express an age-old " Misoneism" - a fear of the new and the unknown. Freud was the first one to explore the unconscious background of consciousness. He came to a conclusion that neurotic symptoms like hysteria, certain types of pain and abnormal behavior are in fact symbolically meaningful. They are one way in which the unconscious mind expresses itself, just as it may in dreams; and they are equally symbolic. A patient, for example, who vomits when he eats, "cannot digest" some unpleasant facts. Another example of an asthmatic patient, he/she can't breathe in the atmosphere they live in. Many similar examples could be cited, but such physical reactions are only one form in which the problems that trouble us unconsciously may express themselves. They more often find expression in our dreams.
The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium. This is called complementary role of dreams in our psychic. For example, people who have unrealistic ideas or too high on opinion of themselves or who make grandiose plans out of their real capacities, have dreams of flying or falling. The dream compensates for the deficiencies of their personalities and at the same time it warns them of the dangers in their present life. If the warnings of the dream are disregarded, real accidents may take place.
Whoever denies the existence of the unconscious or say that there is no unconscious, merely express an age-old " Misoneism" - a fear of the new and the unknown. Freud was the first one to explore the unconscious background of consciousness. He came to a conclusion that neurotic symptoms like hysteria, certain types of pain and abnormal behavior are in fact symbolically meaningful. They are one way in which the unconscious mind expresses itself, just as it may in dreams; and they are equally symbolic. A patient, for example, who vomits when he eats, "cannot digest" some unpleasant facts. Another example of an asthmatic patient, he/she can't breathe in the atmosphere they live in. Many similar examples could be cited, but such physical reactions are only one form in which the problems that trouble us unconsciously may express themselves. They more often find expression in our dreams.
The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium. This is called complementary role of dreams in our psychic. For example, people who have unrealistic ideas or too high on opinion of themselves or who make grandiose plans out of their real capacities, have dreams of flying or falling. The dream compensates for the deficiencies of their personalities and at the same time it warns them of the dangers in their present life. If the warnings of the dream are disregarded, real accidents may take place.
For the sake of mental stability and even physiological health, the unconscious and the conscious must be integrally connected and thus move on parallel lines. If they are split apart or disassociated, psychological disturbance follows.
Dream symbols are essential message carriers from the instinctive to the rational parts of mind and their interpretation enriches the poverty of consciousness so that it learns to understand again the forgotten language of the instincts.
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