Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Literary Elements

Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Literary Elements

Genre

Psychological book

Setting and Context

The book is written in the context of dream interpretation.

Narrator and Point of View

Third-person narrative

Tone and Mood

Informative and enlightening

Protagonist and Antagonist

The protagonist is Oedipus.

Major Conflict

The main conflict is that people fail to interpret dreams due to technical jargon used by experts in explaining the meaning of dreams.

Climax

The climax is when the dream is broken down into four main components to make it easy for an average person to interpret their dreams.

Foreshadowing

The dreamer's latent desires foreshadow the symbolic meaning of dreams.

Understatement

The interpretation of dreams is understated. Besides the literal meaning of dreams, the reader realizes that they can be figurative and warn about a particular occurrence.

Allusions

The story alludes to the approaches that are useful in interpreting dreams.

Imagery

The imageries of reality and unconsciousness depict sight, which aids readers to experience both internal and external aspects of dreams.

Paradox

The connotation of dreams in the text is paradoxical. Ironically, the meaning of a dream can only be interpreted correctly when the right interpretation approaches are employed.

Parallelism

N/A

Metonymy and Synecdoche

Latent content is a metonymy for the secrets of unconsciousness.

Personification

N/A

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