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XIII.

I DISCLAIM all pretension to have thrown
light here upon all the problems of the
dream, or to have dealt convincingly with
everything here touched upon. If anyone
is interested in the whole of dream litera-
ture, I refer him to the works of Sante
de Sanctis (I sogni, Turin, 1899). For a
more complete investigation of my concep-
tion of the dream, my work should be con-
sulted: “Die Traumdeutung,” Leipzig and
Vienna, third edition, 1911.^* I will only
point out in what direction my exposition
on dream work should be followed up.

If I posit the problem of dream inter-
pretation the replacement of the dream by
its latent ideas—that is, the resolution of

^* Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams,” third
edition, translated by A. A. Brill. London:
George Allen and Company, Ltd.

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that which the dream work has woven–
I raise a series of new psychological prob-
lems which refer to the mechanism of this
dream work as well as to the nature and
the conditions of this so-called repression.
On the other hand, I claim the existence
of dream thoughts as a very valuable
foundation for psychical construction of the
highest order, provided with all the signs
of normal intellectual performance. This
matter is, however, removed from conscious-
ness until it is rendered in the distorted
form of the dream content. I am com-
pelled to believe that all persons have such
ideas, since nearly all, even the most
normal, can have dreams. To the uncon-
sciousness of dream ideas, or their relation-
ship to consciousness and to repression, are
linked questions of the greatest psycho-
logical importance. Their solution must
be postponed until the analysis of the
origin of other psychopathic growths, such
as the symptoms of hysteria and of obses-
sions, has been made clear.