The dream-work.

Abstract

ALt previous attempts to solve the problems of the dream '' I am glad I didn't get any vermin anyway (which incidentally is one of his phobias). Whereupon the cab-driver answered : "How could anybody stop there! It isn't a hotel at all, it's really nothing but a road-house ! " ficance of stairway dreams, referred to on p. 246.There is no inn in this street. In estimating this description ofthe author one may recall the signi-* This is the real inciter of the dream. t By way of su plement. Such books are poison to a young girl. She herself in youth h a s drawn much information from forbidden books. $ A further train of thought leads to Penthesileia by the aame author: cruelty towards her lover. But I will not give you your liberty." '' I love you like a little beetle." the formation of new unitiea (collective pemons, composite * Given by translator as author's example could not be translated. Analysis. * The same analysis and synthesis of syllables-a veritable chemistry of syllables-serves us for many a jest in waking life. '' What is the cheapest method of obtainin silver1 You o to a field where silver-berries are growing and pick t%em; then the ferries are eliminated and the silver remains in a free state." The first person who read and criticised this book made the objection to me-which other readers will probably repeat-" that * Lasker died of progressive paralysis, that is of the consequences of an infection caught from a woman (lues) ; Lasalle, as is well known, was killed in a duel on account of a lady. * Psychic intensity, value, and emphasis due to the interest of an idea are, of course, to be kept distinct from sensational intensity, and from intensity of that which is conceived. * I have since given the corn lete arialysis and synthesis of two dreams in the Bruchtueck einer iYysteriean&se, 1905. T * Accompanying hysterical symptoms : Failure to menstruate and profound depression, which was the chief ailment of the patient. * Cf. Der Wits und seine Beziehuny zzcm Unbezuussten, 2nd edit. 1912, and '' word-bridges," in the solutions of neurotic symptoms.'' I can't stand the sight of it," a phrase not appearing even in the dream as an actual speech, is a thought which has reference to the physical charms of the lady who invites him, and which would be translated as meaning that he does not want to look at her.A large courtyard in which corpses are cremated.

From Freud’s dream‐work to Bion’s work of dreaming: The changing conception of dreaming in psychoanalytic theory

“…Dream‐work translates the unconscious (latent) content (such as childhood fears, conflicts, and wishes that are ‘unacceptable to consciousness’) into the manifest content. This is done according to principles of (1) condensation : “the first achievement of the dream‐work” (Freud, 1916b, p. 171), which collapses several concepts into one for purposes of disguise; (2) displacement : “… replacing something by an allusion … [which is] more remote” (Freud, 1916b, p. 174); and (3) representation : “transforming thoughts into visual images” (Freud, 1916b, p. 175). Through these disguising mental operations, forbidden wishes are altered in such a way as to give their unconscious derivatives “free access to the conscious [mind]” (Freud, 1915, p. 149).…”

“…In Freud’s dream interpretation, the analyst – positioned between the conscious and the unconscious – interprets the patient’s dream, by reversing the direction of dream‐work, beginning with the manifest content and working backward to the latent material (Freud, 1916b). Dream‐work is “the work which transforms the latent dream into the manifest one; the work which proceeds in the contrary direction, which endeavors to arrive at the latent dream from the manifest, is our [the analyst’s, not the patient’s] work of interpretation … [which] seeks to undo the dream‐work” (Freud, 1916b, p. 170).…”

“…This and the following comments reflect the degree to which Freud sees the work of dream interpretation as almost exclusively the domain of the analyst. The analyst “… call[s] up ideas that occur to the dreamer till you have penetrated from the substitute to the genuine thing and, on the ground of your own [the analyst’s] knowledge, replacing the symbols by what they mean” (Freud, 1916b, p. 170).…”

“…Even judgements made after waking up on a dream that has been remembered, and the feelings called up in us by the reproduction of such a dream, form part … of the latent content of the dream and are to be included in the [analyst’s] interpretation. (Freud, 1900b, p. 445, italics in original)…”

‘I was obsessed by a complex of terrors and longings connected with the idea “War”’: World War I in the early writing of Christopher Isherwood

“…] is played by the parents', and throughout his writings Isherwood constantly deals with the image of parentage and heredity. 1 The images Isherwood develops are not constant; however, through the differing but overlapping stories that deal with the loss of the father which envelops his sense of childhood, he develops a literary mythology.…”