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Cougards and Dreams :)

Posted by Jeff Allred (he/him/his) on

Dreams and desires manifest themselves in many different ways for different people. Women who are cougars simply enjoy the unwavering attention that young men give to women, party due to their young age and ignorance as to what an actual relationship entails.

The dream of unwavering youthful love has latent content much like in Hamlet. While the manifest content of that kind of dream is the relationship, the latent content is the desire to own the relationship in a masculine sense for these women who would not be afforded such domination from a man their age or older.

I quite liked that comment because it not only brings in Freud but also the previous reading of Taboo and Sex. While we may be quick to judge these desires, we must also be aware of where they stem from and how we like the unconscious mind attempt to censor our the real world; we displace strange desires into the realm of taboo and dismiss it by disfiguring something very real.

 

A response to reinforce Jcastillos cougar comment. 

 

Go cougars?

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Freud: My New Favorite Reading

Posted by Jeff Allred (he/him/his) on

What Freud brilliantly realizes is that we mar our unconscious so that it better fits into the reality that we prefer. The paradoxical nature of our minds is that reality within our minds is a completely different entity from the material world (the physical), yet we accept what we know, even though it is a censored version of what is real.

 

This semiotic approach to dreams allows those who would like to interpret the meaning of their dreams to look past what they saw in the dream, and trace back the origins of those images to what created them in the unconscious.

The condensation of latent content of dreams is equitable not only to the dream itself but of the unconscious in general as well. What we call the unconscious is actually the primordial soup of all apparent perception we have (the obvious portion of our minds and experience). When Freud says that the unconscious is condensed, is because what creates the visible is the workings of our mind that we just allow to happen.

 

In the unconscious our minds ‘displace’ what it deems to be harmful to us, and rather than allowing the self to deal with this threat it displaces the agony that this element represents with something else (something kinder to our sensibilities).

 

In order to circumvent the shields displacement we must learn that like a rebus puzzle a dream has a language of its own despite it seeming with direction. Interpreting dreams as symbols that allude to other things that are at the core of the original meaning of it we can more deeply read our dreams and discover their actual content.

 

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