Lecture #1 — Dreams & the Unconscious: FREE University-Level Intro to Psychoanalytic Theory

FREE, university-level introductory lecture. This is Lecture Number One in an ongoing educational series (Introduction to Psychology playlist), a two-part “bonus educational episode” on psychoanalytic theory and the psychology of dreams. Part I builds the classic Freudian toolkit—id/ego/superego, manifest vs. latent content, the dream-work (condensation, displacement, symbolization, dramatization, secondary revision), and shows how recurrent motifs (falling, teeth, exams, water, nakedness, vehicles) function as compromise formations that preserve sleep while staging conflict and wish. Part II adds the Jungian lens—compensation, the prospective function, and archetypes (Persona, Shadow, Anima/Animus, Self)—alongside a concise bridge to modern sleep science (REM/NREM, memory consolidation, affect recalibration, predictive processing). Throughout, we model clinical craft: free association, evenly hovering attention, transferential dreams (how treatment enters the dream), ethical interpretation, and practical methods for keeping a dream log and expanding capacity without panic. Designed for motivated beginners, creators, and curious minds who want precise concepts, vivid examples, and a clear path from theory to practice. This lecture concludes Part II and announces the series roadmap: attachment and development; defense and adaptation; memory, trauma, and recovery; motivation and learning; affect regulation; personality structures; and how contemporary therapies converge and diverge. New lectures will appear on the same playlist.