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certain fields (“Memory”). In striking contradiction with this the majority of medical writers hardly admit that the dream is a psychical phenomenon at all. According to them dreams are provoked and initiated exclusively by stimuli proceeding from the senses or the body, which either reach the sleeper from without or are accidental disturbances of his internal organs. The dream has no greater claim to meaning and importance than the sound called forth by the ten fingers of a person quite unacquainted with music running his fingers over the keys of an instrument. The dream is to be regarded, says Binz, “as a physical process always useless, frequently morbid.” All the peculiarities of dream life are explicable as the incoherent effort, due to some physiological stimulus, of certain organs, or of the cortical elements of a brain otherwise asleep. But slightly affected by scientific opinion and untroubled as to the origin of dreams, the popular view holds firmly to the belief that dreams really have got a meaning, in some way they do foretell the future, whilst the meaning can be unravelled in some way or other from its oft bizarre and enigmatical content. The reading of dreams consists in replacing the events of the dream, so far as remembered, by other events. This is done either scene by scene, according to some rigid key, or the dream as a whole is replaced by something else of which it was a symbol. Serious-minded persons laugh at these efforts —“Dreams are but sea-foam!” One day I discovered to my amazement that the popular view grounded in superstition, and not the medical one, comes nearer to the truth about dreams. I arrived at new conclusions about dreams by the use of a new method of psychological investigation, one which had rendered me good service in the investigation of phobias, obsessions, illusions, and the like, and which, under the name “psycho-analysis,” had found acceptance by a whole school of investigators. The manifold analogies of dream life with the most diverse conditions of psychical disease in the waking state have been rightly insisted upon by a number of medical observers. It seemed, therefore, a priori, hopeful to apply to the interpretation of dreams methods of investigation which had been tested in psychopathological processes. Obsessions and those peculiar sensations of haunting dread remain as strange to normal consciousness as do dreams to our waking consciousness; their origin is as unknown to consciousness as is that of dreams. It was practical ends that impelled us, in these diseases, to fathom their origin and formation. Experience had shown us that a cure and a consequent mastery of the obsessing ideas did result when once those thoughts, the connecting links between the morbid ideas and the rest of the psychical content, were revealed which were heretofore veiled from consciousness. The procedure I employed for the interpretation of 10
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Dream Psychology
Title
Dream Psychology
Author
Sigmund Freud
Date
1920
Language
English
License
PD
Size
21.0 x 29.7 cm
Pages
114
Keywords
Neurology, Neurologie, Träume, Psycholgie, Traum
Categories
Geisteswissenschaften
International
Medizin

Table of contents

  1. Introduction 4
  2. Chapter 1: Dreams have a meaning 9
  3. Chapter 2: The Dream mechanism 20
  4. Chapter 3: Why the dream diguises the desire 34
  5. Chapter 4: Dream analysis 43
  6. Chapter 5: Sex in dreams 54
  7. Chapter 6: The Wish in dreams 67
  8. Chapter 7: The Function of the dream 79
  9. Chapter 8: The Primary and Secondary process - Regression 89
  10. Chapter 9: The Unconscious and Consciousness - Reality 104
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