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followed, i.e. where the wishing merges into an hallucination, This first
psychic activity therefore aims at an identity of perception, i.e. it aims at a
repetition of that perception which is connected with the fulfillment of the
want. This primitive mental activity must have been modified by bitter
practical experience into a more expedient secondary activity. The
establishment of the identity perception on the short regressive road within
the apparatus does not in another respect carry with it the result which
inevitably follows the revival of the same perception from without. The
gratification does not take place, and the want continues. In order to equalize
the internal with the external sum of energy, the former must be continually
maintained, just as actually happens in the hallucinatory psychoses and in the
deliriums of hunger which exhaust their psychic capacity in clinging to the
object desired. In order to make more appropriate use of the psychic force, it
becomes necessary to inhibit the full regression so as to prevent it from
extending beyond the image of memory, whence it can select other paths
leading ultimately to the establishment of the desired identity from the outer
world. This inhibition and consequent deviation from the excitation becomes
the task of a second system which dominates the voluntary motility, i.e.
through whose activity the expenditure of motility is now devoted to
previously recalled purposes. But this entire complicated mental activity
which works its way from the memory picture to the establishment of the
perception identity from the outer world merely represents a detour which has
been forced upon the wish-fulfillment by experience.[21] Thinking is indeed
nothing but the equivalent of the hallucinatory wish; and if the dream be
called a wish-fulfillment this becomes self-evident, as nothing but a wish can
impel our psychic apparatus to activity. The dream, which in fulfilling its
wishes follows the short regressive path, thereby preserves for us only an
example of the primary form of the psychic apparatus which has been
abandoned as inexpedient. What once ruled in the waking state when the
psychic life was still young and unfit seems to have been banished into the
sleeping state, just as we see again in the nursery the bow and arrow, the
discarded primitive weapons of grown-up humanity. The dream is a fragment
of the abandoned psychic life of the child. In the psychoses these modes of
operation of the psychic apparatus, which are normally suppressed in the
waking state, reassert themselves, and then betray their inability to satisfy our
wants in the outer world. The unconscious wish-feelings evidently strive to
assert themselves during the day also, and the fact of transference and the
psychoses teach us that they endeavor to penetrate to consciousness and
dominate motility by the road leading through the system of the
foreconscious. It is, therefore, the censor lying between the Unc. and the
Forec., the assumption of which is forced upon us by the dream, that we have
to recognize and honor as the guardian of our psychic health. But is it not
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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