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Dreams of Good and Evil     Dreams are windows into peoples sub scruples and their true emotions and gives important clues to emotional disturbances. Sigmund Freud, the first person to systematically hold woolgathers, said that desires are revealed in the form of dreams. Freud said that dreams gratify those desires which that a person would never express while awake. Psychiatrists today tend to suppose dreams as attempts to solve problems rather than as the fulfillment of unconscious desires. any(prenominal) dreams are, they gratify a physiological and psychological need of humans. In disgust and Punishment, Raskolinov manifests guilt itself in a dream in which Ilya Petrovich mercilessly beats his landlady. This dream is a vision into Raskolinovs emotional disturbances and signifies resentment and fear.     Raskolinovs dreams are continual conflicts between his dark and hateful take heed and his conscience. His mind drives him to murder and inflates his ego to make him feel as an extraordinary man. On the other hand, his conscience struggles to hinder these violent motives. Raskolinovs mind is at battle with itself in a conflict of morals and corruption that is manifested into the dream of the mare. Dostoevsky uses the dream as evidence of Raskolinovs psychic illness. Raskolinov can be identified as all of the characters in his dream Mikolka, the jeering crowd, the trounce horse, and the innocent child. Raskolinovs confusion and obvio...