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Suspension or at least retardation, of self-consciousness, consequent ignorance of the condition as such, and hence incapability of astonishment and lack of moral consciousness.
Modified perception of the sensory organs; that is, perception is diminished in the dream and generally enhanced in insanity.
Combination of ideas with each other exclusively in accordance with the laws of association and of reproduction, hence automatic formation of groups and for this reason disproportion in the...
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Changing or transformation of the personality and at times of the peculiarities of ...
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"To him who is tortured by physical and mental sufferings the dream accords what has been denied him by reality, to wit, physical well-being and happiness;
"Absurd combinations of ideas and weakness of judgment are the main characteristics of the dream and of insanity."
The over-estimation of one's own mental capacity, which appears absurd to sober judgment, is found alike both in one and the other, and the rapid course of ideas in the dream corresponds to the flight of ideas in the psychosis.
Both are devoid of any measure of time. The dissociation of personality in the dream, which, for instance, distributes one's own knowledge between two persons, one of whom, the strange one, corrects in the dream one's own ego, fully corresponds to ...
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Insanity, an abnormal phenomenon of disease, is to be regarded as an enhancement of the periodically recurring normal dream states"
we are engaged in the elucidation of the psychosis when we endeavour to clear up the mystery of the dream.
If there were such a thing in science as right to revenge, I in turn should be justified in ignoring the literature since the appearance of this book.
to "interpret a dream" means to declare its meaning, to replace it by something which takes its place in the concatenation of our psychic activities as a link of full importance and value.
state of mind of a man in contemplation is entirely different from that of a man who is observing his psychic processes.
It does not seem beneficial, and it is harmful for the creative work of the mind, if the intelligence inspects too closely the ideas already pouring in, as it were, at the gates. Regarded by itself, an idea may be very trifling and very adventurous, but it perhaps becomes important on account of one which follows it; perhaps in a certain connection with others, which may seem equally absurd, it is capable of forming a very useful construction.
not the dream as a whole, but only the parts of its contents separately, may be made the object of our attention.
an interest in the hidden significance of dreams imperatively demands such transference.
since the fulfilment of a wish is its only purpose, it may be perfectly egotistic. Love of comfort is really not compatible with consideration for others.
there is an inability during sleep to find an adequate expression for the dream thoughts.
Only where two persons are in question, one of whom possesses a certain power, while the other must have a certain consideration for this power. This second person will then disfigure his psychic actions, or, as we may say, he will dissimulate.
"You may not tell the best that you know to the youngsters."
Nothing can reach consciousness from the first system which has not first passed the second instance, and the second instance lets nothing pass without exercising its rights and forcing such alterations upon the candidate for admission to consciousness as are pleasant to itself.
disagreeable dreams, as a matter of fact, contain something which is disagreeable to the second instance, but which at the same time fulfils a wish of the first instance.
Identification is a highly important factor in the mechanism of hysterical symptoms; by this means patients are enabled in their symptoms to represent not merely their own experiences, but the experiences of a great number of other persons, and can suffer, as it were, for a whole mass of people, and fill all the parts of a drama by means of their own personalities alone.
Their sympathy is aroused, and the following syllogism, which does not reach consciousness, is completed in them:
These dreams regularly occur in the course of my treatment if the patient shows a resistance against me, and I can count with a large degree of certainty upon causing such a dream after I have once explained to the patient my theory that the dream is a wish-fulfilment.
The dream is the (disguised) fulfilment of a (suppressed, repressed) wish.
neurotic fear has its origin in the sexual life, and corresponds to a libido which has been turned away from its object and has not succeeded in being applied.
a decision is made as to what is to reach our consciousness and what is to be withheld from it, that is to say, what we are to think—this produces an impression of morbidity, and we call it an error of thought if it occurs in waking life.
this dream disfigurement as the work of a censor which controls the passage between two psychic instances.
If it were really the duty of the dream, by means of a special psychic activity, to rid our memory of the "slag" of the recollections of the day, our sleep would have to be more troubled and employed in a more strained effort than we may suppose it to be from our waking life.
Relations between this impression and the real source of the dream do not always exist from the beginning; as we have seen, they are established only subsequently, in the course of the dream-work, as though in order to serve the purpose of the intended displacement.
Otherwise it would be just as easy for the dream thoughts to transfer their accent to some inessential member of their own series of associations.
a kind of compulsion exists for the dream function, forcing it to bring together in the dream all the available sources of dream stimulation into a unified whole.
The element which is destined to representation in the dream may either belong to the presentations surrounding the actual dream stimulus itself—and, furthermore, either as an essential or an inessential element of the same—or it may originate in the neighbourhood of an indifferent impression, which, through associations more or less rich, has been brought into relation with the thoughts surrounding the dream stimulus.
a certain psychological value for dream formation, which is somewhat equivalent to the value of emotionally accentuated memories or trains of thought.
Those elements which were originally indifferent are in fact no longer so, since they have acquired the value of psychologically significant material.
That which has actually remained indifferent can never be reproduced in the dream.
Dreams which are apparently harmless turn out to be sinister if one takes pains to interpret them;
Thinking and experiencing are here, as it were, the same thing.
