The Interpretation of Dreams. Sigmund Freud

      Sigmund Freud

      The Interpretation of Dreams

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      Inhaltsverzeichnis

       Titel

       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.

      II METHOD OF DREAM INTERPRETATION

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      I THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE ON THE PROBLEMS OF THE DREAM

      Sigmund Freud

      The Interpretation

      of Dreams

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      Title: The Interpretation of Dreams

      Author: Sigmund Freud

      Publisher: Pretorian Books, Ul Hristo Samsarov 9, 9000 Varna

      Date: 22.10.19

      In the following pages I shall prove that there exists a psychological technique by which dreams may be interpreted, and that upon the application of this method every dream will show itself to be a senseful psychological structure which may be introduced into an assignable place in the psychic activity of the waking state. I shall furthermore endeavour to explain the processes which give rise to the strangeness and obscurity of the dream, and to discover through them the nature of the psychic forces which operate, whether in combination or in opposition, to produce the dream. This accomplished, my investigation will terminate, as it will have reached the point where the problem of the dream meets with broader problems, the solution of which must be attempted through other material.

      I must presuppose that the reader is acquainted with the work done by earlier authors as well as with the present status of the dream problem in science, since in the course of this treatise I shall not often have occasion to return to them. For, notwithstanding the effort of several thousand years, little progress has been made in the scientific understanding of dreams. This has been so universally acknowledged by the authors that it seems unnecessary to quote individual opinions. One will find in the writings indexed at the end of this book many stimulating observations and plenty of interesting material for our subject, but little or nothing that concerns the true nature of the dream or that solves definitively any of its enigmas. Still less of course has been transmitted to the knowledge of the educated laity.

      The first book in which the dream is treated as an object of psychology seems to be that of Aristotle (Concerning Dreams and their Interpretation). Aristotle asserts that the dream is of demoniacal, though not of divine nature, which indeed contains deep meaning, if it be correctly interpreted. He was also acquainted with some of the characteristics of dream life, e.g., he knew that the dream turns slight sensations perceived during sleep into great ones ("one imagines that one walks through fire and feels hot, if this or that part of the body becomes slightly warmed"), which led him to conclude that dreams might easily betray to the physician the first indications of an incipient change in the body passing unnoticed during the day. I have been unable to go more deeply into the Aristotelian treatise, because of insufficient preparation and lack of skilled assistance.

      As every one knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient times the two antagonistic streams, which one finds throughout in the estimates of dream life, were already noticeable. They distinguished between true and valuable dreams, sent to the dreamer to warn him or to foretell the future, and vain, fraudulent, and empty dreams, the object of which was to misguide or lead him