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suddenly aroused from a sound sleep. Here, as well as in spontaneous
awakening, the first glance strikes the perception content created by the
dream-work, while the next strikes the one produced from without.
But of greater theoretical interest are those dreams which are capable of
waking us in the midst of sleep. We must bear in mind the expediency
elsewhere universally demonstrated, and ask ourselves why the dream or the
unconscious wish has the power to disturb sleep, i.e. the fulfillment of the
foreconscious wish. This is probably due to certain relations of energy into
which we have no insight. If we possessed such insight we should probably
find that the freedom given to the dream and the expenditure of a certain
amount of detached attention represent for the dream an economy in energy,
keeping in view the fact that the unconscious must be held in check at night
just as during the day. We know from experience that the dream, even if it
interrupts sleep, repeatedly during the same night, still remains compatible
with sleep. We wake up for an instant, and immediately resume our sleep. It is
like driving off a fly during sleep, we awake ad hoc, and when we resume our
sleep we have removed the disturbance. As demonstrated by familiar
examples from the sleep of wet nurses, &c., the fulfillment of the wish to
sleep is quite compatible with the retention of a certain amount of attention in
a given direction.
But we must here take cognizance of an objection that is based on a better
knowledge of the unconscious processes. Although we have ourselves
described the unconscious wishes as always active, we have, nevertheless,
asserted that they are not sufficiently strong during the day to make
themselves perceptible. But when we sleep, and the unconscious wish has
shown its power to form a dream, and with it to awaken the foreconscious,
why, then, does this power become exhausted after the dream has been taken
cognizance of? Would it not seem more probable that the dream should
continually renew itself, like the troublesome fly which, when driven away,
takes pleasure in returning again and again? What justifies our assertion that
the dream removes the disturbance of sleep?
That the unconscious wishes always remain active is quite true. They
represent paths which are passable whenever a sum of excitement makes use
of them. Moreover, a remarkable peculiarity of the unconscious processes is
the fact that they remain indestructible. Nothing can be brought to an end in
the unconscious; nothing can cease or be forgotten. This impression is most
strongly gained in the study of the neuroses, especially of hysteria. The
unconscious stream of thought which leads to the discharge through an attack
becomes passable again as soon as there is an accumulation of a sufficient
amount of excitement. The mortification brought on thirty years ago, after
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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