“ If we avail ourselves for a moment longer of the right to elaborate from the dream interpretation such far-reaching psychological speculations, we are in duty bound to demonstrate that we are thereby bringing the dream into a relationship which may also comprise other psychic structures. ”
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1899). copy citation
| Author | Sigmund Freud |
|---|---|
| Source | The Interpretation of Dreams |
| Topic | dream interpretation psychology |
| Date | 1899 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by A. A. Brill |
| Weblink | http://www.bartleby.com/285/7.html |
Context
“We have explained that the reason why the dream is in every case a wish realisation is because it is a product of the Unc., which knows no other aim in its activity but the fulfilment of wishes, and which has no other forces at its disposal but wish-feelings. If we avail ourselves for a moment longer of the right to elaborate from the dream interpretation such far-reaching psychological speculations, we are in duty bound to demonstrate that we are thereby bringing the dream into a relationship which may also comprise other psychic structures. If there exists a system of the Unc.—or something sufficiently analogous to it for the purpose of our discussion—the dream cannot be its sole manifestation; every dream may be a wish-fulfilment, but there must be other forms of abnormal wish-fulfilment besides this of dreams.”
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