Psychoanalytic dream analysis

Pick a dream that is imagistically and emotionally vivid & easy to recall. Begin the paper with your account of that dream.
Find day residues from the days before you dreamt the dream.
Free associate to each of the dream images—particularly those with day residues. Just let your mind go and write down whatever memories come to mind even if they seem improper, bad, irrelevant, or whatever.
What are the key features of the dream’s manifest content?
Where in the dream do you see dreamwork: e.g. condensation (combined or syncretic images) or displacement (emotions from one situation or character transferred to another?
Guess what the dream wish is.
Guess what the dream punishment is.
On the basis of your day residues, free associations, and guesses deduce what inner conflict the dream is working on and state that clearly in a paragraph.
How is the dream commenting on or changing that conflict?
How is this conflict a cultural conflict in America? You can use what you learned about American culture earlier in this course.
How does your choice of a dream to recount and your