dreamwork

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theorization by Freud

  • Sigmund Freud
    In Sigmund Freud: The interpretation of dreams

    …of the dream’s disguise, or dreamwork, as Freud called it. The manifest content of the dream, that which is remembered and reported, must be understood as veiling a latent meaning. Dreams defy logical entailment and narrative coherence, for they intermingle the residues of immediate daily experience with the deepest, often…

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  • ivory diptych
    In dream: Psychoanalytic interpretations

    …content in an effort called dreamwork. He held that impulses one fails to satisfy when awake are expressed in dreams as sensory images and scenes. In dreaming, Freud believed:

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