Jimmy has a recurring dream about trying to rescue his very attractive neighbor's cat from a tree. Unfortunately, in his dream,
the ladder in Jimmy's garage is never tall enough to reach the cat. Freud probably would say that the underlying meaning of this dream revolves around:
According to Freud, the dream is one of the ways in which we have to contact issues of the unconscious and bring them into the light of consciousness, thus better understanding ourselves. For Freud, every dream has a meaning that attaches to a fulfillment of a desire suppressed by his consciousness. Normally these desires are primitive and, therefore, this repression arises because they are desires vetoed by the prevailing morals of the culture in which the subject is inserted, or even because they are related to his personal questions and aspirations. Dreams then fulfill these wishes in some symbolic way to compensate for this repression.
Based on Freud's claims, we can conclude that the underlying meaning of Jimmy's dream revolves around Jimmy's sexual insecurities.
