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the study of individual psychology and individual pathology.
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Freud had a lot to say about dreams
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as you could see in this illustration.
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He believed that dreams had a manifest content, meaning;
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"manifest" meaning what you experience in your dream.
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But dreams always had a latent content as well,
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meaning the hidden implication of the dream.
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He viewed all dreams as wish fulfillment.
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Every dream you have is a certain wish you have
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even though it might be a forbidden wish that you wouldn't wish to have,
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you wouldn't want to have.
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And dreams had--and this is an idea that long predated Freud.