Freud's Dream-Work

Freud believed in the expression of language to help reveal the nature of his patient's dreams. He used the term 'dream-work' to describe the ways in which dreams materialize from the unconscious and argued that dreams reflect desires (primarily sexual) which are supressed by the superego in order for the ego to develop as a social individual. There are instances however, when desires often escape from the unconscious and are revealed through slips of the tongue or within dreams themselves.
The content of a dream is produced by 'dream-thoughts' and presented in the form of illustrated signs which are then deciphered back into dream-thought to try and obtain the correct meaning. The relationship between the way dream-thoughts are displaced