12016-12-06T18:03:30-08:00Elizabeth Withers4c83cfe2d791828249eb6cc21e5e14580fecf72e130082plain2016-12-14T15:36:02-08:00Elizabeth Withers4c83cfe2d791828249eb6cc21e5e14580fecf72eMarge's dream deals with the daily residue of her success as a food blogger as she blogs with the kids. She feels that it is the only thing that makes her fun, and worries that Homer will take it away from her. The first part of her dream is her wish fulfillment that she and the kids receive recognition, as Bourdain is going to make them famous. Then, the dream becomes an anxiety dream, as Homer steals the food and takes over her dream. The bouncing balls can be seen as a kind of distortion; they represent fun, but Freud details that physical activities like bouncing are often representations of the sex act. That Homer is leading the activities and everyone joins in but Marge is significant. It can be interpreted as a repressed desire for sexual (and perhaps, more general) dominance, which Marge feels guilty for. This desire is then displaced and manifests in Homer, rather than in Marge. His statement that he has taken her dream can be viewed figuratively, as he stole her aspirations to be a food blogger, but also as a statement about his role in Marge's psyche-- that her repressions can be manifested in him and she need not acknowledge them in herself. Gordon Ramsey then literally takes her dream. He can be viewed as a condensation of both Marge and Homer, and an authority figure in the food world, as he takes away Marge's dream, thus taking away the power she feels guilt over desiring. The dream also displays secondary revision, in that it begins as Marge's dream and then is attributed to Gordon Ramsey instead. conclusions