Dream Analysis

Dream Analysis

I am going to do my dream analysis paper using the quantitative methods outlined in Every Dream Interpreted, by Veronica Tonay and “The Hall/Van de Castle System of Quantitative Analysis,” available at dreamresearch.net.   However, I will also be analyzing the data qualitatively, from a Freudian psychoanalytic perspective.       Okay!
The client is a 35-year-old female, and after interpreting her dreams and analyzing the data, I found that her main wish is to be content with herself and to experience intimacy with another, while at the same time, she fears exposing her vulnerabilities.   Good! You are right In Dream 2, a man she is with is driving her car over newly plowed fields.   She gets angry at the man.   According to Freud, the field might represent her fertility and sexuality.   Perhaps her frustration at the man is actually displaced anger that she feels about not expressing herself openly enough in her intimate relationships in her waking life.   Yep A farmer then begins to chase them and the car disappears.   The farmer and owner of the property could represent a father figure for the dreamer, who also described him as “…compassionate and caring…. Wise. Patient. Genuine.” The father figure is someone she admires and seeks fulfillment from and may represent a wish she has now.  
It is also interesting that there are significantly more males and characters who are strangers, rather then known, present in her dreams.   As Chart 1 shows, 38% of the dreamer’s characters are male strangers compared to only 15% of characters of the average female dreamer (This may suggest an Oedipal complex, which will be discussed later). good
Dream 4 reflects her wish to be intimate with another.   In the dream, a man carries a women’s cello, while protecting it from rain, into a house.   The man carrying the cello could, again, represent a father figure.   In any case, he is being caring.   Similarly, character A, who is a familiar male and an object of sexual...