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Delusion and Dream in Jensen's GradivaAn Awesome Book On Eplaining The Psychoanalysis Of DreamsThe basic tenets of psychoanalysis include: a person's development is determined by often forgotten events in early childhood rather than by inherited traits alone. human attitude, mannerism, experience, and thought is largely influenced by irrational drives that are rooted in the unconscious it is necessary to bypass psychological resistance in the form of defense mechanisms when bringing drives into awareness conflicts between the conscious and the unconscious, or with repressed material can materialize in the form of mental or emotional disturbances, for example: neurosis, neurotic traits, anxiety, depression etc. liberating the elements of the unconscious is achieved through bringing this material into the conscious mind (via e.g. skilled guidance, i.e. therapeutic intervention). Analysis Of The TextAn isolated, unworldly individual, Hanold has 'repressed the memory of a girl, Zoe Bertgang, with whom he has grown up and to whom he had been affectionately attached'; but is unconsciously reminded of her by 'a bas-relief depicting a young, lovely woman with a distinctive gait. He calls her Gradiva, which means the woman who steps along ' After a dream about Gradiva and the destruction of Pompeii, Hanold 'leaves for Pompeii, where he meets a young woman, very much alive, whom he takes for Gradiva. In the course of the meetings that follow, he organizes his mania, stalking and interpreting signs (Gradiva appears at noon, the ghost hour, and the like). Gradiva seeks to cure him by gradually revealing her identity to him. The woman is of course Hanold's childhood sweetheart, Zoe; and 'fortunately his Gradiva is as shrewd as she is beautiful. Zoe, the source of his malaise, also becomes the agent of its resolution; recognizing Hanold's delusions for what they are, she restores him to sanity, disentangling his fantasies from reality'- it 'is only Zoe who can tell him that his archeological interest is sublimated desire for her'. With respect to 'the final paragraph, in which Jensen has Hanold asking Zoe to walk ahead of him and she complies with a smile, Freud put, Erotic...foot interest '...By walking ahead of him in imitation of Gradiva on the plaque, she finds the key to his therapy'.

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Sigmund Freud born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 - 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist, now known as the father of psychoanalysis. Freud qualified as a doctor of medicine at the University of Vienna in 1881, and then carried out research into cerebral palsy, aphasia and microscopic neuroanatomy at the Vienna General Hospital.Upon completing his habilitation in 1885, he was appointed a docent in neuropathology and became an affiliated professor in 1902. Dreams Freud believed that the function of dreams is to preserve sleep by representing as fulfilled wishes that would otherwise awaken the dreamer. In Freud's theory dreams are instigated by the daily occurrences and thoughts of everyday life. His claim that they function as wish fulfillments is based on an account of the dreamwork in terms of a transformation of secondary process thought, governed by the rules of language and the reality principle, into the primary process of unconscious thought governed by the pleasure principle, wish gratification and the repressed sexual scenarios of childhood. In order to preserve sleep the dreamwork disguises the repressed or latent content of the dream in an interplay of words and images which Freud describes in terms of condensation, displacement and distortion. This produces the manifest content of the dream as recounted in the dream narrative. For Freud an unpleasant manifest content may still represent the fulfillment of a wish on the level of the latent content. In the clinical setting Freud encouraged free association to the dream's manifest content in order to facilitate access to its latent content. Freud believed interpreting dreams in this way could provide important insights into the formation of neurotic symptoms and contribute to the mitigation of their pathological effects.

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