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Repressed wishes, especially infantile and sexual ones, disguise themselves as dreams — revealing the unconscious logic underneath waking life.
desire
It hath already been the lot of many men in dreams to think themselves partners of their mother's bed — Jocasta dismisses what Freud considers foundational.
VLA-748DF906-RC-164The fulfillment of these wishes no longer generates pleasure, but pain — this transformation of affect is what we call repression.
VLA-748DF906-RC-349shame
It was only during childhood that we were seen undressed by relatives and strangers — the dream originates from early childhood memories of exposure.
VLA-748DF906-RC-149In my college examination dreams, I am regularly tested in history — a subject I passed with distinction, yet the anxiety dream persists.
VLA-748DF906-RC-169transformation
The most complex mental operations can occur without consciousness — repressed dream thoughts are not incapable of becoming conscious, merely diverted.
VLA-748DF906-RC-342Dream displacement is not pathological but a more primitive form of mental functioning, differing from normal processes in degree rather than kind.
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