Freud's psychoanalytic theory of dreaming states that __________

a) the purpose of dreaming is to satisfy unconscious destructive and sexual desires and wishes.
b) there is no purpose to dreaming; dreams occur because of random brain stem signals.
c) the purpose of dreaming is to make sense of the random firing of neurons during sleep.
d) dreaming is a by-product of a process of eliminating or strengthening neural connections.


a

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