Freud distinguished between the surface content of dreams and their latent content-the hidden, unconscious thoughts or desires that he believed were expressed indirectly through dreams. In dreams, according to Freud, people allow themselves to express instinctive desires that are relatively free of moral controls. ... For example, the desire kill your own father may be placed into the dream as seeing him off at an airport. ... If this is true, then an indirect cause to these dreams would be the events that result in those subconscious feelings. ...

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Sigmund Freud, a psychoanalyst born in the 1800's, had a very unique way of describing humanistic wants and desires. ... For example they could eat a lot or smoke or maybe even suck their thumb, all of these things will fill a void in that person's life, they feel that something that was never given to them as a child and they still subconsciously feel they lack it as an adult. ... His imaginary state kept trying to take over showing Sherman his innermost desires. ...

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