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ACT Reading: Social Science Passage Drill 1, Problem 2. Based on the passage, which of the following is not a conclusion reached by Freud in the course of his research?

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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by all our wildest dreams. Which... we'd

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really prefer Freud didn't analyze.

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According to Freud, which of the following best describes the "double-sided" nature of dreams?

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Since we know we're looking for a statement that's "double-sided," or having two

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aspects, we can quickly cross out choice (D).

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Though Freud would agree that dream analysis is important to psychotherapy, there's nothing

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"double-sided" here.

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No one's going to argue with the fact that some dreams are nice...

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And some dreams are not so nice...

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This point is way too simple for the lofty mind of Sigmund Freud, however.

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So we can get rid of choice (A).

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Lucid dreaming, though it may be a familiar term, doesn't appear in the passage, making

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answer (B) incorrect.

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Choice (C) nails it. The dual nature of dreams, according to Freud, is that they may be the

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effect of biological stimuli—but this doesn't mean dreams don't have other meanings in addition

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to their biological cause.

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We wish we could ask Freud about the reoccurring dream we've been having about growing gills

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and swimming in a sea of gravy.

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