Freud : his dream and sex theories / by Joseph Jastrow.

  • Joseph Jastrow
Date:
1948,
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    pared and assimilated in matter and manner of compo¬ sition. They are of an imagination all compact—luna¬ tic, lover, poet, child, primitive, and dreamer. The “dream-work” proceeds from a subconscious craftsman, laboring at once under his imposed restric¬ tions, and enjoying the liberties and licenses which he takes without asking; he delivers the product when completed to the dreaming understudy of the con¬ scious psyche. Upon awakening, the conscious mas¬ ter may regard the dream as a foundling deposited on his doorstep, failing to recognize the identifying features of his own paternity; this the dream analyst supplies, possibly imposes. But the identification is by no means as certain as that of finger-prints, for both the waking and dreaming self use alibis and aliases. Unravelling the dream-work, guessing the process from the product, tracing the primitive paternity and gene¬ alogy of the dream-relations, is part of the art that Freud inaugurated. Viewing the Freudian version of the dream more critically, we must bear in mind that the study of dreams belongs to psychology. If the dream as it emerges in the psychoanalytic clinic suggests that dreams are repressed desires; that they disguise the desire as they project it into the dream; that they em¬ ploy symbolism; that the symbolism uses preferred patterns of relation between the symbol which it selects and the thing, person, relation, emotion, thought sym¬ bolized: all these points become matters of investiga¬ tion for students of dreams in general. The evidence supplied by psychoanalysis is in itself far from com¬ plete. Psychology cannot turn over the study of dreams to psychoanalysts. Pierce has studied several thousand dreams of several hundred persons. He found that not fifty per cent of his material could be interpreted as
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