The purpose of Freud's techniques of dream analysis and free association:
a. is to evaluate, assess, or find the unconscious.
b. is to depict humans in gloomy, pessimistic terms.
c. is to eliminate a patient's set of sexual desires and wants.
d. is to suppress sexual tensions and frustrations.
ANS: A
FEEDBACK: The goal of Freud's system of psychoanalysis was to bring the repressed memories, fears, and thoughts in the unconscious back into conscious awareness. To evaluate, assess, or even find this invisible portion of the mind in this dark arena that is otherwise inaccessible to us, Freud developed two methods of assessment: free association and dream analysis.
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