欢迎访问本站。
The Interpretation of Dreams Chapter IV. DISTORTION IN DREAMS Psychology
V. THE MATERIAL AND SOURCES OF DREAMS
HAVING realized, as a result of analysing the dream of Irma's injection, that
the dream was the fulfilment of a wish, we were immediately interested to
ascertain whether we had thereby discovered a general characteristic of dreams,
and for the time being we put aside every other scientific problem which may
have suggested itself in the course of the interpretation. Now that we have
reached the goal on this one path, we may turn back and select a new point of
departure for exploring dream-problems, even though we may for a time lose sight
of the theme of wish- fulfilment, which has still to be further considered.
Now that we are able, by applying our process of interpretation, to detect a
latent dream-content whose significance far surpasses that of the manifest
dream-content, we are naturally impelled to return to the individual
dream-problems, in order to see whether the riddles and contradictions which
seemed to elude us when we had only the manifest content to work upon may not
now be satisfactorily solved.
The opinions of previous writers on the relation of dreams to waking life, and
the origin of the material of dreams, have not been given here. We may recall
however three peculiarities of the memory in dreams, which have been often
noted, but never explained:
1. That the dream clearly prefers the impressions of the last few days (Robert,
Strumpell, Hildebrandt; also Weed-Hallam);
2. That it makes a selection in accordance with principles other than those
governing our waking memory, in that it recalls not essential and important, but
subordinate and disregarded things;
3. That it has at its disposal the earliest impressions of our childhood, and
brings to light details from this period of life, which, again, seem trivial to
us, and which in waking life were believed to have been long since forgotten. *
* It is evident that Robert's idea- that the dream is intended to rid our memory
of the useless impressions which it has received during the day- is no longer
tenable if indifferent memories of our childhood appear in our dreams with some
degree of frequency. We should be obliged to conclude that our dreams generally
perform their prescribed task very inadequately.
These peculiarities in the dream's choice of material have, of course, been
observed by previous writers in the manifest dream- content.
(2) DREAMS OF THE DEATH OF BELOVED PERSONS
(1) THE EMBARRASSMENT-DREAM OF NAKEDNESS
C. The Somatic Sources of Dreams
B. Infantile Experiences as the Source of Dreams
A. Recent and Indifferent Impressions in the Dream
感谢您访问本站。