PS271 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Ernest Hilgard
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The meaning of dream content: the content of our dreams provides clues about what"s in our unconscious. A dream contains images or evokes emotions that we feel must mean something. People can have the same dream for days, weeks, and even months. People use identification to associate themselves with powerful and successful individuals: ex. A young man might think about his association with a military leader or: important role in the development of gender identity successful athlete. Denial consists of disavowing certain facts, from failure to see reality to destroying one"s memory, thereby reducing the anxiety associated with a traumatic event. Older children turn to projection to alleviate their anxieties and inward fears: protects us from threatening anxiety by attributing unacceptable thoughts and feelings to someone else. More concerned with tendentious jokes- the ones that provide insight into the unconscious of the joke teller as well as the person who laughs: two kinds of tendentious jokes- 1.
