Imagine an elderly man sitting in a chair, a notepad and a pen in his hand, listening to a patient lying on a sofa remember his dream. This elderly man is a psychoanalyst, his name is Sigmund Freud. Freud was a psychologist who developed a theory of personality called the psychoanalytic perspective. This perspective proposes that personality is the result of animal-like driving forces that are often in conflict with each other and are sometimes unconscious. All references and terminology regarding Freud are taken from Ciccarelli, SK and White NJ (2013). Psychology An Exploration (2nd Edition) New Jersey: Pearson Eduction, Inc. According to Freud, dreams allow us to express these desires without the regulations of our conscious thought processes. In order to uncover the unconscious conflicts that lead to maladaptive behavior, Freud developed a method of therapy based on the psychoanalytic perspective called Psychoanalysis. In order to understand psychoanalysis, Freud's theories regarding personality characteristics are necessary. According to Freud, there are three basic systems, the id, the ego and the superego, which constitute the personality. First, the It operates on the pleasure principle and is motivated by pleasure and gratification. According to Freud, these drives are sexual and aggressive in nature. Second, the Ego operates according to the reality principle, it acts as a negotiator between the desires of the id and the responsibilities of being part of a community. Third, the superego is what many people call your conscience, it judges whether an action is moral or not. Taking all of this into account, the aim of this article is to psychoanalyze a dream of mine as if I were both Freud and the patient. . To begin with, I remember the manifest content (part of the dre...... middle of paper ......aper, I recorded two weeks of sleep recordings and all dreams. I feel This method of recording my dreams was not effective in getting an accurate recording of my dreams Most of the time when I woke up I was too groggy to properly record a dream, but I think if anyone. one was there to ask me questions about my dream and record my answers, then the dream narrative would be more accurate since my mind would not be trying as hard to piece together a realistic story from the dream. I was actually quite surprised at how much it highlighted the issues that concern me living under my parents' authority. I think it's an accurate way to highlight the frustrations that cause. maladaptive behavior Works Cited Ciccarelli, SK and White NJ (2013) Psychology an exploration (2nd edition) New Jersey: Pearson. Education, Inc..