Sigmund Freud developed many theories in an effort to answer the mystery of a person's conscious and subconscious. The evidence for these theories came through years of analysis of patients and himself. In fact many of his ideas and beliefs came from his own psychoanalysis. His invention of "psychoanalysis" ha allowed us to better understand the Oedipus Complex, dreams, and symptoms of hysteria.

Certain patients of Freud would display signs and symptoms of hysteria and instead of excepting a doctor's diagnostic he would delve into their mind in order to find a resolution. After analyzing numerous patients he came to the belief that certain events are never forgotten. A memory that would possible cause this problem would not fade away but rather just burrow itself into the persons conscious. The only way these events could ever be reached would be when the conscious would release its barrier and this could be done under hypnosis. Once the event and it feelings were relived the symptoms were gone. Freud came to the conclusion that the symptoms were a way of the conscious discharging the "affect" of the memory. In time Freud came to realize

that a more productive method of recalling the memories was through "free association" or just talking about whatever is in your head. When this was performed on patients and the feedback was studied Freud was amazed that an abundance of it dealt with sexual childhood experiences.

Freud once said that, "Dreams are the royal road to he unconscious." What he ment by this is that when we dream our conscious releases its guard and we can explore our inner mysteries. He discovered that every dream has some sort of "wish fullfillment". These wishes are something repressed by the conscious and only come out in disguise. In believed that our bodies had an alert system where in the day it is on and cautious but at night it turns off. However sometimes it remains slightly on and if it catches a thought slipping by it immediately sends impulses to the brain waking up the individual. The dreams he analyzed consisted of two parts, a latent and a manifest. The manifest was the obvious and the latent was the hidden and mysterious. A dream that he experienced when he was seven uses these parts. In his dream he saw his grandfather in his mother's bed which was being carried by bird men.

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