
Episode 116: Freud on Dreams
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Are You Really Prancing Through the Meadows in Your Dreams?
Freud says we can distinguish between which dreams have some kind of significance and which are simple in your terms. The more clear and straightforward the dream is, the more you can suspect that there isn't actually anything behind it. There's a certain kind of prima facia experience of the dream which lets you know whether it has some significance or not. So if it's something that you easily understand and that makes perfect sense, the chances are very good that it's not one of those deep, repressive dreams. It's just straight up, i'm hungry, i're hungry.
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