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Sex in dreams
The more one is occupied with the solution of dreams, the more willing one
must become to acknowledge that the majority of the dreams of adults treat of
sexual material and give expression to erotic wishes. Only one who really
analyzes dreams, that is to say, who pushes forward from their manifest
content to the latent dream thoughts, can form an opinion on this subject—
never the person who is satisfied with registering the manifest content (as, for
example, Näcke in his works on sexual dreams). Let us recognize at once that
this fact is not to be wondered at, but that it is in complete harmony with the
fundamental assumptions of dream explanation. No other impulse has had to
undergo so much suppression from the time of childhood as the sex impulse
in its numerous components, from no other impulse have survived so many
and such intense unconscious wishes, which now act in the sleeping state in
such a manner as to produce dreams. In dream interpretation, this significance
of sexual complexes must never be forgotten, nor must they, of course, be
exaggerated to the point of being considered exclusive.
Of many dreams it can be ascertained by a careful interpretation that they
are even to be taken bisexually, inasmuch as they result in an irrefutable
secondary interpretation in which they realize homosexual feelings—that is,
feelings that are common to the normal sexual activity of the dreaming
person. But that all dreams are to be interpreted bisexually, seems to me to be
a generalization as indemonstrable as it is improbable, which I should not like
to support. Above all I should not know how to dispose of the apparent fact
that there are many dreams satisfying other than—in the widest sense—erotic
needs, as dreams of hunger, thirst, convenience, &c. Likewise the similar
assertions “that behind every dream one finds the death sentence” (Stekel),
and that every dream shows “a continuation from the feminine to the
masculine line” (Adler), seem to me to proceed far beyond what is admissible
in the interpretation of dreams.
We have already asserted elsewhere that dreams which are conspicuously
innocent invariably embody coarse erotic wishes, and we might confirm this
by means of numerous fresh examples. But many dreams which appear
indifferent, and which would never be suspected of any particular
significance, can be traced back, after analysis, to unmistakably sexual wish-
feelings, which are often of an unexpected nature. For example, who would
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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