Chapter 1, Section B
All the material making up the content of a dream is in some way derived from experience, that is to say, has been reproduced or remembered in the dream—so much at least we may take for granted....
Chapter 2
The first of these procedures considers the extent of the dream as a whole and seeks to replace it by another content which is intelligible and in certain respects analogous to the original one. Th...
Chapter 3
It will be seen that we might have arrived at our theory of the hidden meaning of dreams most rapidly merely by following linguistic usage. It is true that common language sometimes speaks of dream...
Chapter 4
Identification is most frequently used in hysteria to express a common sexual element. A hysterical woman identifies herself in her symptoms most readily—though not exclusively—with people with...
Chapter 5, Section A
She was putting a candle into a candlestick; but the candle broke so that it wouldn't stand up properly. The girls at her school said she was clumsy; but the mistress said it was not her fault. (5...
Chapter 5, Section B
Dreams frequently seem to have more than one meaning. Not only, as our examples have shown, may they include several wish-fulfilments one alongside the other; but a succession of meanings or wish f...
Chapter 5, Section D
If anyone dreams, with every sign of pain, that his father or mother or brother or sister has died, I should never use the dream as evidence that he wishes for that person's death at the present ti...
Chapter 6
The dream-thoughts and the dream-content are presented to us like two versions of the same subject-matter in two different languages. Or, more properly, the dream-content seems like a transcript of...
Chapter 6, Section A
The work of condensation in dreams is seen at its clearest when it handles words and names. It is true in general that words are frequently treated in dreams as though they were things, and for tha...
Chapter 6, Section B
On the one hand we see the group of ideas attached to my friend Otto, who did not understand me, who sided against me, and who made me a present of liqueur with an aroma of amyl. On the other hand...
Chapter 6, Section C
What representation do dreams provide for "if," "because," "just as," "although," "either—or," and all other conjunctions without which we cannot understand sentences or speeches?" (6.4.5)
Chapter 6, Section D
It is true that I know of patients who have retained an architectural symbolism for the body and the genitals. […] For these patients pillars and columns represent the legs (as they do in the Son...
Chapter 6, Section F
It then struck me as noticeable that in the scene in the dream there was a convergence of a hostile and an affectionate current of feeling towards my friend P., the former being on the surface and...
Chapter 6, Section G
It was distressing to me to think that some of the premises which underlay my psychological explanations of the psychoneuroses were bound to excite skepticism and laughter when they were first met...
Chapter 6, Section H
He began to flatter me: telling me how much he had learnt from me, how he looked at everything now with fresh eyes, how I had cleansed the Augean stables of errors and prejudices in my theory of th...
Chapter 7, Section A
It must not be forgotten that in interpreting a dream we are opposed by the psychical forces which were responsible for its distortion. It is thus a question of relative strength whether our intell...
Chapter 7, Section B
Behind this childhood of the individual we are promised a picture of a phylogenetic childhood—a picture of the development of the human race, of which the individual's development is in fact an a...
Chapter 7, Section D
It is, I may say, a matter of daily experience that sexual intercourse between adults strikes any children who may observe it as something uncanny and that it arouses anxiety in them. I have explai...
Chapter 7, Section E
This effortless and regular avoidance by the psychical process of the memory of anything that had once been distressing affords us the prototype and first example of psychical repression. It is a f...
Chapter 7, Section F
And the value of dreams for giving us knowledge of the future? There is of course no question of that. It would be truer to say instead that they give us knowledge of the past. For dreams are deriv...