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Given that it's kind of iffy to open up a brain while a person is living to find anything related to his psyche, we do with what's most socially acceptable. =/

Psychology isn't a hard science because emotions and experiences are subjective to the person. Psychoanalysis gets into the mind of the individual.
We are not machines. Freud's theories may be dated is some respects, but I think he was right at the time. The Victorian people of England are different than modern Americans. This doesn't make his theories any less true. We are better off expanding on his approach rather than dismissing it.

If Freud was so wrong, then why did the US government employ him as well as Edward Bernays to learn about human behavior? Why did the Nazi scientists use his knowledge to learn how to control the masses? Are all of these elites just dumb and new agey? I don't think so. Even if they were just silly for attempting their psychological experiments, the fact is that they worked. Propaganda is a very useful tool. It works on the subconscious level. There is no proof that the subconscious mind even exists, but I think we all have experienced it. It's not a tangible thing, the psyche. But I don't think it is wise to say that it doesn't exist at all based on the fact that you can't dissect it and look at it under a microscope.

If dreams are all just silly rubbish, then why do we have to dream? Why is it that when we are not allowed to reach the REM state it affects our memory, learning abilities, behavior, etc?

Believe it or not, human beings are incredibly predictable. You can always logically deduce a person's actions if you know them well enough. Psychology doesn't seek to claim that everyone will have x reaction to y stimulus. Rather, it says that z person will have x reaction to y stimulus.

But psychology is blind to its own faults, and, as I have said before, one of them is hubris. The idea that people, without modern psychology degrees, could have possibly come up with something as yet undiscovered is patently absurd. Unfortunately, it's also possible, even likely. How many psychologists are there in the world? How many people are not psychologists, but theorize about human nature and the way the mind works on a daily basis? You'll find that the second outnumbers the first on an extraordinary scale. The idea that those billions could not possibly come up with a workable idea is a denial of reality. The law of averages says that this idea that psychologists have is impossible.

Dream interpretation is entirely possible, but psychologists refuse to examine its possibilities. As such, psychology is incomplete. Until psychologists open themselves to ideas from external sources, they can never come to full knowledge of how the human mind works.

In biology there is usually a cause and effect. Our bodies usually have a reason for their functions.
How many arbitrary functions does the body carry out on a daily basis? If dreaming is of non-importance, then why do our brains carry out this unnecessary process every night?