Dreams

* The unconscious is a store house of stories. Tap into symbols and images and share those that resonate with others.

* Dream Diary - good for ideas. The more you write the more you remember.
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Sigmund Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams - used widely by screen writers.

The book introduces Freud's theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation and also first discusses what would later become the theory of the Oedipus Complex. Freud revised the book at least eight times and, in the third edition, added an extensive section which treated dream symbolism very literally, following the influence of Wilhelm Stekel. Freud said of this work, "Insight such as this falls to one's lot but once in a lifetime."

Four operations take place in Dream work

1. Condensation - Synecdoche
2. Displacement - Allusion (metonymy) e.g a suit is a business man
3. Representation - thoughts made visual
4. Symbolism - constant relation - things that take on a different meaning, e.g phallic symbols

The Surrealism movement stemmed from Freude's discovery of the unconscious.
Surrealism: irrational Juxtaposition

The Archetype Theory - Created by Carl Jung: “ancient or archaic images that derive from the collective unconscious. The archetypes are also referred to as innate universal psychic dispositions which form the substrate from which the basic symbols or representations of unconscious experience emerge. These are different from instincts, as Jung understood instincts as being “an unconscious physical impulse toward actions and the archetype as the psychic counterpart”. There are many different archetypes and Jung has stated they are limitless, but they have been simplified; examples include the persona, the shadow, the anima, the animus, the great mother, the wise old man, the hero, and the self.