dreamwork
Dreamwork is a term with several related meanings in psychology and popular culture. In psychoanalysis, dream-work (Traumarbeit) refers to the mental processes by which latent dream thoughts are transformed into the manifest content of a dream. Freud described mechanisms such as condensation (several ideas merged into one image), displacement (emotional significance shifted to different elements), symbolization (abstract ideas represented by symbols), and secondary revision (the mind edits the dream into a coherent narrative). The manifest dream is thus a disguised expression of unconscious wishes and conflicts.
In clinical settings, dream-work is used in dream analysis or therapy to uncover underlying material and to
The term is sometimes encountered as a misspelling or informal reference to DreamWorks, the American film studio
In broader usage, dream-work may also describe deliberate work with dreams in therapeutic, educational, or creative