a power struggle? im lost with this my guy
Answer:
Jimmy's sexual insecurities.
Explanation:
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.
I’m not sure if this exactly answers your question, but some eyebrows are raised at his dilemmas (morality tests) because the only people tested were 10-16 year old boys that had never been in the situations that were presented to them. Overall his dilemmas could be a reason why people question his theories. Other than this reason I am not aware of another reason why people would question his stages of moral development.
