Question: In the following pages, I shall demonstrate that there is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and that on the application of this technique, every dream will reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of significance, and one which may be assigned a specific place in the psychic activities of the walking state, Further, I shall endeavour to elucidate the processes the nature of the psychic forces whose conflict or cooperation is responsible for our dreams. This done, my investigation will terminate, as it will have reached the point where the problem of the dream merges into more comprehensive problems, and to solve these we must have recourse to material of a different kind.
Which of the followings would be closest to the ideas expresses in the first two sentences of the above passages?
The passage talks about how dreams may seem strange and unrelated to any actual happening, but have a direct relation to an activity in the waking state. The first two sentences say that dreams are the clearly apparent visible manifestation of a hidden or obscure psychic cause. Option 5, which mentions that “overt” or 'plainly apparent' effects (dreams in this case) can have “covert” or 'not openly displayed' causes (“the psychic activities of the waking state” in this case), is close to the idea expressed in these two sentences.
Eliminate options 1, 2 and 3, which incorrectly attribute the qualities of overtness and covertness to the causes and effects.
Option 4 gives a proverb that bears no relation to the idea expressed in the two sentences of the passage. It is in fact somewhat contradictory to the main idea, as the proverb implies that outer effects or appearances are not related to inner hidden qualities. The passage says that there is in fact a relationship between hidden psychic forces and the outwardly apparent effects. Eliminate option 4.
Hence, the correct answer is option 5.