The Interpretation of Dreams

Оглавление

Sigmund Freud. The Interpretation of Dreams

I THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE ON THE PROBLEMS OF THE DREAM

THE ANALYSIS OF A SAMPLE DREAM

Dream of July 23–24, 1895

Analysis

III THE DREAM IS THE FULFILMENT OF A WISH

IV DISTORTION IN DREAMS

V THE MATERIAL AND SOURCES OF DREAMS

(a) Recent and Indifferent Impressions in the Dream

(b) Infantile Experiences as the Source of Dreams

(c) Somatic Sources of Dreams

(d) Typical Dreams

VI THE DREAM-WORK

(a) The Condensation Work

II. "A Beautiful Dream"

(b) The Work of Displacement

(c) Means of Representation in the Dream

(d) Regard for Presentability

(e) Examples—Arithmetic Speeches in the Dream

(f) Absurd Dreams—Intellectual Performances in the Dream

(g) The Affects in the Dream

(h) Secondary Elaboration

VII THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE DREAM ACTIVITIES

(a) Forgetting in Dreams

(b) Regression

(c) The Wish-Fulfilment

(d) Waking caused by the Dream—The Function of the Dream—The Anxiety Dream

(e) The Primary and Secondary Processes—Regression

(f) The Unconscious and Consciousness—Reality

Impressum

Отрывок из книги

Titel

I THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE ON THE PROBLEMS OF THE DREAM

.....

According to Strümpell, there are still other factors effective in the forgetting of dreams which are derived from the relation of the dream to the waking state. The forgetfulness of the waking consciousness for dreams is evidently only the counterpart of the fact already mentioned, that the dream (almost) never takes over successive memories from the waking state, but only certain details of these memories which it tears away from the habitual psychic connections in which they are recalled while we are awake. The dream composition, therefore, has no place in the company of psychic successions which fill the mind. It lacks all the aids of memory. "In this manner the dream structure rises, as it were, from the soil of our psychic life, and floats in psychic space like a cloud in the sky, which the next breath of air soon dispels" (p. 87). This is also aided by the fact that, upon awakening, the attention is immediately seized by the inrushing sensory world, and only very few dream pictures can withstand this power. They fade away before the impressions of the new day like the glow of the stars before the sunlight.

As a last factor favouring the forgetting of dreams, we may mention the fact that most people generally take little interest in their dreams. One who investigates dreams for a time, and takes a special interest in them, usually dreams more during that time than at any other; that is, he remembers his dreams more easily and more frequently.

.....