Psychic ability is the innate human ability to perceive things, people, places and events, distant in space and/or time that are shielded from our normal five senses. If you ask the general populous if they ever had a ‘forefeeling’ something was about to happen, something that they could not have known. Most people will answer [...]
CHAPTER VII D. Waking Caused by Dreams — The Function of Dreams — The Anxiety Dream Now that we know that throughout the night the preconscious is orientated to the wish to sleep, we can follow the dream-process with proper understanding. But let us first summarize what we already know about this process. We have [...]
CHAPTER VII C. The Wish-Fulfilment The dream of the burning child (cited above) affords us a welcome opportunity for appreciating the difficulties confronting the theory of wish-fulfilment. That a dream should be nothing but a wish-fulfilment must undoubtedly seem strange to us all- and not only because of the contradiction offered by the anxiety-dream. Once [...]
CHAPTER VII THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE DREAM PROCESSES AMONG the dreams which have been communicated to me by others, there is one which is at this point especially worthy of our attention. It was told me by a female patient who had heard it related in a lecture on dreams. Its original source is unknown [...]
I. The Secondary Elaboration [Psych Web editor's note: in later editions of The Interpretation of Dreams, this was rendered as "Secondary Revision" with a footnote saying previous editions used "the somewhat misleading English translation 'secondary elaboration.'"] We will at last turn our attention to the fourth of the factors participating in dream-formation. If we continue [...]
CHAPTER VI H. The Affects in Dreams A shrewd remark of Stricker’s called our attention to the fact that the expressions of affects in dreams cannot be disposed of in the contemptuous fashion in which we are wont to shake off the dream-content after we have waked. “If I am afraid of robbers in my [...]
CHAPTER VI D. Regard for Representability We have hitherto been concerned with investigating the manner in which our dreams represent the relations between the dream- thoughts, but we have often extended our inquiry to the further question as to what alterations the dream-material itself undergoes for the purposes of dream-formation. We now know that the [...]
CHAPTER VI C. The Means of Representation in Dreams Besides the two factors of condensation and displacement in dreams, which we have found to be at work in the transformation of the latent dream-material into the manifest dream-content, we shall, in the course of this investigation, come upon two further conditions which exercise an unquestionable [...]
CHAPTER VI B. The Work of Displacement Another and probably no less significant relation must have already forced itself upon our attention while we were collecting examples of dream-condensation. We may have noticed that these elements which obtrude themselves in the dream-content as its essential components do not by any means play this same part [...]
CHAPTER VI A. Condensation The first thing that becomes clear to the investigator when he compares the dream-content with the dream-thoughts is that a tremendous work of condensation has been accomplished. The dream is meagre, paltry and laconic in comparison with the range and copiousness of the dream-thoughts. The dream, when written down fills half [...]
