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Why the dream diguises the desire
In the foregoing exposition we have now learnt something of the dream work;
we must regard it as a quite special psychical process, which, so far as we are
aware, resembles nothing else. To the dream work has been transferred that
bewilderment which its product, the dream, has aroused in us. In truth, the
dream work is only the first recognition of a group of psychical processes to
which must be referred the origin of hysterical symptoms, the ideas of morbid
dread, obsession, and illusion. Condensation, and especially displacement, are
never-failing features in these other processes. The regard for appearance
remains, on the other hand, peculiar to the dream work. If this explanation
brings the dream into line with the formation of psychical disease, it becomes
the more important to fathom the essential conditions of processes like dream
building. It will be probably a surprise to hear that neither the state of sleep
nor illness is among the indispensable conditions. A whole number of
phenomena of the everyday life of healthy persons, forgetfulness, slips in
speaking and in holding things, together with a certain class of mistakes, are
due to a psychical mechanism analogous to that of the dream and the other
members of this group.
Displacement is the core of the problem, and the most striking of all the
dream performances. A thorough investigation of the subject shows that the
essential condition of displacement is purely psychological; it is in the nature
of a motive. We get on the track by thrashing out experiences which one
cannot avoid in the analysis of dreams. I had to break off the relations of my
dream thoughts in the analysis of my dream on p. 8 because I found some
experiences which I do not wish strangers to know, and which I could not
relate without serious damage to important considerations. I added, it would
be no use were I to select another instead of that particular dream; in every
dream where the content is obscure or intricate, I should hit upon dream
thoughts which call for secrecy. If, however, I continue the analysis for
myself, without regard to those others, for whom, indeed, so personal an
event as my dream cannot matter, I arrive finally at ideas which surprise me,
which I have not known to be mine, which not only appear foreign to me, but
which are unpleasant, and which I would like to oppose vehemently, whilst
the chain of ideas running through the analysis intrudes upon me inexorably. I
can only take these circumstances into account by admitting that these
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Buch Dream Psychology"
Dream Psychology
- Titel
- Dream Psychology
- Autor
- Sigmund Freud
- Datum
- 1920
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- PD
- Abmessungen
- 21.0 x 29.7 cm
- Seiten
- 114
- Schlagwörter
- Neurology, Neurologie, Träume, Psycholgie, Traum
- Kategorien
- Geisteswissenschaften
- International
- Medizin
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction 4
- Chapter 1: Dreams have a meaning 9
- Chapter 2: The Dream mechanism 20
- Chapter 3: Why the dream diguises the desire 34
- Chapter 4: Dream analysis 43
- Chapter 5: Sex in dreams 54
- Chapter 6: The Wish in dreams 67
- Chapter 7: The Function of the dream 79
- Chapter 8: The Primary and Secondary process - Regression 89
- Chapter 9: The Unconscious and Consciousness - Reality 104