Question 10

In the following pages, I shall demonstrate that there is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and that on the application of this technique, every dream will reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of significance, and one which may be assigned a specific place in the psychic activities of the walking state, Further, I shall endeavour to elucidate the processes the nature of the psychic forces whose conflict or cooperation is responsible for our dreams. This done, my investigation will terminate, as it will have reached the point where the problem of the dream merges into more comprehensive problems, and to solve these we must have recourse to material of a different kind.

Which of the followings would be closest to the ideas expreses in the first two sentences of the above passages?

Solution

The passage discusses how dreams, which are overt effects (observable experiences), can be interpreted using a psychological technique to reveal their deeper, hidden covert causes (underlying psychological structures and unconscious processes)

The phrase "every dream will reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of significance" suggests that an external dream has an internal meaning. Therefore, the idea that "overt effects can have covert causes" best aligns with the passage. Thus, the correct option is E.


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