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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the social sciences. They're a lot more

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fun to have around than the antisocial ones.

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Which of the following best describes the main idea of this passage?

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At this point, we've read through the passage several times, so we should be able to nix

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the answers that don't sum up the main point without breaking a sweat.

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Which will differ vastly from the intense yoga workshop we were subjected to at the

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last Shmoop retreat.

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Freud doesn't necessarily agree that dreams can literally predict the future. If he did,

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he would probably be remembered as a quack.

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However, he does say that the old-school interpretation of dreams isn't to be totally dismissed.

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In any case, choice (A) definitely isn't the main point of this passage.

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Answer (B) is obviously incorrect. If we've learned anything from this passage, it's

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that Freud was all about dream interpretation. (D) is also wrong. Freud says that while they're

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connected to the world of the mind, dreams are connected to the physical world as well.

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Guess if we want to influence our dreams, we'll have to... get physical.

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(C) is the major point of the passage.

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Basically, Freud is arguing that dream interpretation and psychoanalysis can go hand in hand.

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Or... foot in mouth, as the case may be.

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