Review of Literature on Dreams: The Psychoanalysis of Sigmund FreudFreud started a therapy called psychoanalysis to help patients overcome their mental problems, using in-depth analysis of a patient's dream. Freudian psychoanalysis assumes that dreams fulfill a certain function. Freud considers dreams to be a mental activity also experienced by our ancestors. The mind begins to disconnect from the outside world during sleep but remains in an instinctive state. The mind protects the sleeper from disturbances by creating dreams that satisfy unconscious desires (Freud, 1900: §V, C, p.234). Therefore, unconscious content becomes conscious even if distorted. Dreams allow you to satisfy the id without causing problems. The id is one of the three parts of the mind that Freud categorizes. The unconscious part of the mind is the id and will continually seek to satisfy instinctual impulses. The ego is responsible for managing reality, in which it strives to find realistic and socially appropriate ways to satisfy the desire of the id. The final part of the mind is the superego, which deals with morality. The superego holds all the norms and ideals acquired from parents and society (Storr, 1989: p.61). If all the desires of the id appear, the dreamer will wake up with horror (Flanagan: 2000, p. 43). Therefore, the resulting dream is always imbued with disguises and expressions of the id's desires. The dream will be experienced and interwoven into a story-like element that absorbs the dreamer further into the dream. Freud also believed that dreams aided in an individual's survival and were therefore passed on to the next generation. Individuals themselves do not listen to the desire of the id when they are conscious or it is possible...... middle of paper ......ming Souls: Sleep, Dreams and the Evolution of the Conscious Mind Oxford: OUP. “The Freud Museum.” Theory: Freud and dreams 5. The Freud Museum, nd Web. April 23, 2014. Freud, S. (1900) The interpretation of dreams in the great books of the Western world | 54 Chicago: Britannica, 1994. Freud, S (1953). The interpretation of dreams and about dreams. In the standard edition of The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. J Strachey (ed.). Hogarth Press. Jung, Carl Gustav. Man and his symbols. New York: Dell, 1964. Schneider, A. and Domhoff, G. W. (2014). The quantitative study of dreams. Accessed April 23, 2014. From http://www.dreamresearch.net/Springett, Ben. "Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy." Dreaming, Philosophy of []. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, nd Web. 24 April 2014. Storr, A. (1989) Freud: A Very Short Introduction Oxford: OUP, 2001..