2023 Author: Jake Johnson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-24 23:11
The symbols of dreams are the same for all humanity and come from Linguistics, Folklore, Mythology and Ritual. But for the dreamer they can have different unconscious meanings.
T. Reik informed us in 1920 that an example of this order is the symbol of the cape. In a woman's dream the cloak represents a man. In the ancient Bedouin wedding ceremony, the groom covers the bride with a cloak while he pronounces the following ritual phrase: “From now on, no one but me will cover you.”
According to Abraham, the spider in the dream is a symbol of the mother, but of the phallic mother (with a phallus because it represents both a man and a woman), whom one is afraid of; so that the fear of the spider can express the terror of incest with the mother and the horror of the female genitalia.
Ferenczi has explained the symbol of the bridge. It originally means the male member, which unites the father with the mother in the sexual act, since it is due to him that the human being can leave the waters of childbirth and come into the world. The bridge becomes the passage from the side there (before childbirth) to the side here (life). It also receives the meaning of a return to the womb (to the water) or a transport to death, and this symbol can also indicate a transition in life, or a change of state. According to Freud, with itit is consistent that the woman who has not yet overcome the desire to be a man so often dreams of bridges, too short to reach the other shore.
Freud goes on to say that mythological themes often find their clarification through the interpretation of dreams. Thus, the legend of the labyrinth reveals to be the representation of an anal birth, the intricate paths are the intestines and Ariadne's thread, the umbilical cord.
The interpretation of dreams has been criticized for the fact that Freud very often considers the raw material of dreams to be of a sexual nature.
Another point discussed has perhaps been the assertion that all dreams are wish fulfillments. In this sense, Freud recognizes some shortcomings that oppose this affirmation, such as dreams of traumatic situations or painful childhood experiences that require further analysis for their understanding. That is why he later adds that in reality the dream is theattemptof a wish fulfillment
