(On The Interpretation Of Dreams, The Material and Sources of Dreams, page 140-141). But wait: is that not a rather vulgar phrase which refers – or rather its opposite does – to an in a man’s dress? The dreamer, by the way, did not use these words perhaps she avoided them… ‘The butcher’s shop was already shut strikes one as a description of the experience. (On The Interpretation Of Dreams, Dream-Distortion, page 119). (On The Interpretation Of Dreams, The Psychology of the Dream-Processes, page 371).Īccording to this dream I was wrong: so it was her wish that I should be wrong, and the dream showed her that her wish was fulfilled. his slumber is not deep – he also closes the gateway to movement. It is the censorship between the Unconscious and the Preconscious that we must acknowledge and honor as the guardian of our mental health…. (On The Interpretation Of Dreams, Dream-Distortion, page 113, 114). Taking into account our assumptions about the two psychical agencies, we can now also add that distressing dreams in fact do contain something which is distressing to the second agency but at the same time fulfills a wish of the first agency.

Perhaps at this point we have a presentiment that the interpretation of dreams is capable of providing us with information about the structure of our psychical apparatus which till now we have sought in vain from philosophy…. by an outpouring of excessive affection, because the wishful endeavors of the first system, in their particular all-absorbing interest, would slander him as a numbskull. In this way my second agency, which rules over access to consciousness, bestows a distinction on my friend R. It can be shown that psychopathology simply cannot do without this basic assumption. Saying this reveals a quite distinct conception of the ‘nature’ of consciousness: in our view, the entry of something into consciousness constitutes a specific psychical act, different from the process by which ideas are generated or imagined and independent of it and we regard consciousness as a sensory organ perceiving a content given from elsewhere. nothing from the first system can become conscious which has not previously been passed by the second agency, and the second agency lets nothing pass without exercising its rights and making whatever changes it thinks fit to the applicant for consciousness. According, we would assume two psychical forces (currents, systems) to be the originators of dream-formation in the individual one of these forms the wish uttered by the dream, while the other imposes a censorship on the dream-wish and by this censorship distorts its expression….

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