The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

almost always play with the truth when we recall a dream to memory.

The dream has a wonderful poetry, an excellent allegory, an incomparable humour, and a charming irony.

The dream is a poorly-concealed fulfilment of the wish to be known

they seek pleasure not in the bodily pain which may be inflicted upon them, but in humiliation and in chastisement of the soul.

His brother has sold the enterprise whose management the young man reserved for his own future. He awakens from the last-mentioned dream with the most unpleasant feelings, and yet it is a masochistic wish-dream, which might be translated: It would serve me quite right if my brother were to make that sale against my interest, as a punishment for all the torments which he has suffered at my hands.

The dream is the (disguised) fulfilment of a (suppressed, repressed) wish.

corresponds to a libido which has been turned away from its object

the libido belonging to which content has been transformed into fear.

like that of the girl who carries her ticket for the concert of the evening in her pocket

In the case of one of my patients, a dream once gave a barely disfigured reproduction of a sexual occurrence, which was immediately recognised as an accurate recollection. The memory of it indeed had never been lost in waking life, but it had been greatly obscured, and its revivification was a result of the preceding work of analysis. The dreamer had at the age of twelve visited a bed-ridden school-mate, who had exposed himself by a movement in bed, probably only by chance. At the sight of the genitals, he was seized by a kind of compulsion, exposed himself and took hold of the member belonging to the other boy, who, however, looked at him with surprise and indignation, whereupon he became embarrassed and let go. A dream repeated this scene twenty-three years later, with all the details of the emotions occurring in it, changing it, however, in this respect, that the dreamer took the passive part instead of the active one, while the person of the school-mate was replaced by one belonging to the present.

I unsuspectingly come upon a scene of childhood in the latent dream content, and that a whole series of dreams suddenly falls into line with conclusions drawn from childish experiences.

this philosophy of carpe diem must fear the censor and must hide behind a dream.

To express the matter boldly, it is as though a sexual preference becomes active at an early period, as though the boy regards his father as a rival in love, and as though the girl takes the same attitude toward her mother—a rival by getting rid of whom he or she cannot but profit.

"The right way always signifies the road to righteousness, the left the one to crime.

But what sort of a wish is supposed to be fulfilled if I acknowledge that I am in the wrong?

of integral value

dream combinations are not made of arbitrary, completely incongruent elements of the dream material, but of elements that also have a somewhat intimate relation to one another in the dream thoughts.

unequal portions

Equal value but...

camelia.