Sue dreams about a child sitting in her bedroom crying, while Sue runs around trying to console the child.According to Freud, this one child represents all the people in her life that Sue is attempting to care for, including her elderly mother, her husband, her children, and her students.Since this one dream character represents so many aspects of Sue's life, the dream process being utilized is
A) displacement.
B) sublimation.
C) condensation.
D) secondary elaboration.

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Condensation is the process in dreaming where one dream symbol can represent multiple ideas, people, or emotions. So in this case, the child in Sue's dream is condensing all the people in her life that she is trying to care for. Displacement is the process of redirecting an emotion or impulse from its original source to a target that is less threatening. Sublimation is the process of channeling negative emotions or impulses into positive behaviors. Secondary elaboration is the process by which the mind weaves together a coherent story from various elements of the dream.

Sue Dreams About a Child Sitting in Her Bedroom Crying