Freud built his model of the mind and his hypotheses about dreaming
directly on the structure of his neurobiological model of the brain, which
was developed in the "Project for a Scientific Psychology", written in
1895. Among the concepts modeled in this work were ego, somatic drives as
motivationally critical, cathexes of psychic energy, wish fulfillment, and
primary and secondary process. From the vantage point of more than 80 years
later, the authors indicate the areas in which many of Freud's
neurobiological assumptions are inacurrate. Revisions are needed in the
neurobiologically derived psychoanalytic concepts, especially those of
Freud's wish fulfillment-disguise theory of dreams.
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