A thorough investigation of the subject shows that the essential condition of displacement is purely psychological it is in the nature of a motive. A whole number of phenomena of the everyday life of healthy persons, forgetfulness, slips in speaking and in holding things, together with a certain class of mistakes, are due to a psychical mechanism analogous to that of the dream and the other members of this group.ĭisplacement is the core of the problem, and the most striking of all the dream performances. It will be probably a surprise to hear that neither the state of sleep nor illness is among the indispensable conditions.
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If this explanation brings the dream into line with the formation of psychical disease, it becomes the more important to fathom the essential conditions of processes like dream building. The regard for appearance remains, on the other hand, peculiar to the dream work.
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Condensation, and especially displacement, are never-failing features in these other processes. In truth, the dream work is only the first recognition of a group of psychical processes to which must be referred the origin of hysterical symptoms, the ideas of morbid dread, obsession, and illusion. To the dream work has been transferred that bewilderment which its product, the dream, has aroused in us.
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In the foregoing exposition we have now learnt something of the dream work we must regard it as a quite special psychical process, which, so far as we are aware, resembles nothing else. Why the Dream Disguises the Desires Sigmund Freud