dream analysis

noun

, Psychoanalysis.

1. the analysis of dreams as a means of gaining access to the unconscious mind, typically involving free association.

Example Sentences

They are about to undertake a European and American tour of their dream analysis, including a residency at the Hay Book Festival in May.

From BBC

This dreamlike work invites dream analysis.

From New York Times

One of the things we did together, which was very unexpected, and which she hadn’t done before — testing how brave and open she is to doing things differently every time — we both did this thing with this wonderful acting coach and dream analyst called Kim Gillingham: dream analysis.

From Los Angeles Times

Some psychologists now frame the Freudian approach to dream analysis — Freud’s theory that all dreams are elaborately coded versions of wish fulfillment, and the subsequent wave of interest in so-called dream interpretation, with certain elements having fixed, identifiable meanings — as an interlude of sorts, a departure and distraction from a century of scientific advancement in dream studies.

From New York Times

They are now offering online sessions on their cosmovisions, dream analysis and healing.

From Scientific American