Visiting Freud’s Museum of Dreams inspired me to create a long-form article about the Unconscious.
The unconscious, according to Freud, is a part of the psyche containing repressed desires, thoughts, and emotions inaccessible to consciousness. It influences behavior through dreams, slips of the tongue, and symptoms, and it does not adhere to logic or morality.
The metaphor of reflection reminds us of the illusion in which people often find themselves.
The long read begins with an introduction to Sigmund Freud.
Diving into the Unconscious
Next, there is an immersion into the depths of the psyche.
Images as Disordered Forms in the Subconscious
The following discusses the phenomenon of hysteria, which served as the starting point for the development of Freud’s psychoanalytic theory.
The hypnotic spiral reminds us of the role of hypnosis in the study of hysteria.
Freud’s famous thought, revisited through mirroring
According to Freud, one should not interpret dream words literally. They must be read letter by letter, syllable by syllable.
