If this is what happens, then a transference and displacement of the psychical intensity of the individual elements has taken place; as a consequence, the difference between the texts of the dream-content and the dream-thoughts makes its appearance.
the Interpretation Of Dreamsby sigmund Freud
Most people report dreaming principally in visual images. Freud, however, assumes that dreams start from a dream-thought that is best expressed in words and translate it into a picture-language which is intellectually inferior because it cannot convey logical connections; the analyst restores to the dream its verbal character.
The way in which these factors — displacement, condensation, and over-determination — interact in the process of dream-formation, and the question of which becomes dominant and which secondary, are things we shall set aside for later inquiries.
Freud revelled in linguistic play, but, despite his appreciation of painting and especially sculpture, he did not know what to make of visual imagery in dreams.
dreams / linguistic / painting / sculpture / visual
Then, when the entire mass of these dream-thoughts is subject to the pressure of the dream-work, and the pieces are whirled about, broken up, and pushed up against one another, rather like ice-floes surging down a river, the question arises: what has become of the bonds of logic which had previously given the structure its form?
What means, then, is the dream-work able to use to indicate these relations, which are so difficult to represent, in the dream-thoughts? I shall attempt to list them one by one.
As these examples show, Freud’s theory is resourceful, perhaps dangerously so, in incorporating apparently recalcitrant counterexamples.
By now, Strachey’s Greek and Latin-based neologisms are deeply embedded in the language of English psychoanalysis. So are his much-debated rendering of “Seele” by “mind”, and his general tendency to use terms implying structure rather than process for the workings of the — mind? soul? psyche?
neologisms / Psychoanalysis / Strachey / structure / workings
In this scheme, the “unconscious” and the “preconscious” are agencies or authorities (Instanzen) which the wish has to satisfy; the unconscious is more tolerant, and helps the wish to smuggle itself past the censorship of the preconscious. As a result, psychical energy is discharged without disturbing sleep.
energy / preconscious / sleep / unconscious / wish
Another assumption is labelled “regression”, and here the reader encounters strange diagrams purporting to represent the direction of psychical energy within the mind.
assumption / mind / reader / regression / strange