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ACT Reading 1.6 Social Science Passage. How does Freud's attitude toward dreams differ from the attitude of "the majority of medical writers"?
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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by every kid ever named Sigmund.
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How does Freud's attitude toward dreams differ from the attitude of "the majority of medical writers"?
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We've spent enough time with this passage to know that Freud is generally way more into
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dreams than his colleagues. Knowing this, we're positive that (D) is
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incorrect. In a lot of ways, Freud and his colleagues did not get along.
Full Transcript
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As we've said before... Freud's whole argument is that dream interpretation can
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be a useful tool in psychoanalysis. Choice (C) is wrong, wrong, wrong.
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(B) is wrong for the same reason as (C). It gets Freud's stance totally backwards.
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Choice (A) is the only one that gets it right.
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Many of Freud's colleagues dismissed dream interpretation out of hand, but Freud argued
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for its—limited—validity.
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