Prof Brendan Kelly continues his project on Sigmund Freud by looking at his Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis ...

Freud was paid about $209. The book explained the double level of dreams: the actual dream with its "manifest content," and the dream's true if hidden meaning, or "latent content." ...

Key points Understanding dreams can help one understand one's unconscious motivations. The manifest content of a dream is the actual dream that a person remembers.

So while the exact extent to which Freud’s theory about dreams was correct remains unclear, in at least one respect, it looks like he got it right after all: dreams really are the royal road to ...