The psychoanalytic theory of dreaming states that

A) the purpose of dreaming is to express unconscious wishes and urges.
B) there is no purpose to dreaming; dreams occur because of random brainstem signals.
C) the purpose of dreaming is to resolve current concerns and problems that we are conscious of.
D) dreaming is a by-product of a process of eliminating or strengthening neural connections.

Answer: A
Rationale: Freud viewed dreams as an unconscious expression of wish fulfillment, and that all humans are motivated by primal urges, with sex and aggression being the most dominant. Because these urges are impractical most of the time, not to mention they are often considered immoral, we learn ways of keeping these urges suppressed and outside of our conscious awareness. However, as we sleep we lose the power to suppress our urges and these drives begin to create all kinds of visions