Infantile Wishes

So I hope I wasn't the only one that completely forgot about blogging after vacation. One point that kept coming up this week was the idea that dreams are brought about by infantile wishes. Much of our debating came about because of different views of what the word infantile meant. The idea that we have such complex dreams about what would be such basic desires was puzzling and the fact that we could even have these thoughts or desires as an infant was intriguing as well. I believe that the author simply had a poor choice of words when he used infantile. I think that libidinous or even instinctual would have worked better. Infantile got too stuck on the fact that as babies we cannot have these big complex thoughts, but when it comes to the libido and our instincts, we do not need to have these intricate thoughts, our desires are our desires. These desires are controlled in every day thought by our superego, but the unconscious mind brings forth these urges in our sleep, causing libidinous, not infantile, wishes.