The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
V.
Lest it may seem too easy a matter to
draw conclusions from dreams concerning the dreamer's real
circumstances, I add another dream originating with the same person,
which once more appears innocent. "I dreamt of doing something," she
relates, "which I actually did during the day, that is to say, I filled
a little trunk so full of books that I had difficulty in closing it. My
dream was just like the actual occurrence." Here the dreamer herself
emphasizes the correspondence between the dream and the reality. All
such criticisms of the dream, and comments on the dream, although they
have found a place in the waking thoughts, properly belong to the latent
dream-content, as further examples will confirm. We are told, then, that
what the dream relates has actually occurred during the day. It would
take us too far afield to show how we arrive at the idea of making use
of the English language to help us in the interpretation of this dream.
Suffice it to say that it is again a question of a little box (cf. chap.
IV, the dream of the dead child in the box) which has been filled so
full that nothing can go into it.
In all these "innocent" dreams the sexual
factor as the motive of the censorship is very prominent. But this is a
subject of primary significance, which we must consider later.
Table of
Contents
THE MATERIAL AND SOURCES OF DREAMS
Recent and Indifferent Impressions in the Dream
Analysis
II.
III.
IV.
V.
Infantile Experiences as the Source of Dreams
I.
II.
III.
IV.
I.
II.
The Somatic Sources of Dreams
Typical Dreams
THE EMBARRASSMENT-DREAM OF NAKEDNESS
DREAMS OF THE DEATH OF BELOVED PERSONS
I.
II.
III.
IV.
The Examination-Dream