40 definitions
The book's index
On Dreams
31 concepts · 40 definitions
- adulthood1
- censorship1
- childhood memory1
- civilized man1
- compromise1
- compromise formation1
- condensation2
- confusion1
- contempt1
- determinism1
- displacement2
- dream5
- dream distortion2
- dream interpretation1
- dream of convenience1
- dream-work1
- ego1
- everyday life1
- free association1
- love1
- nightmare2
- overdetermination1
- perception1
- prophecy1
- regret1
- self-criticism1
- symbol2
- symptom1
- taxi meter1
- wish1
- wish fulfillment1
A Dream (n.) is not the disturber of sleep but its guardian: the good child, instead of shouting “I want the rhino!”, dreams he is playing with it.
A Dream (n.) is never pursued by trivialities that do not affect us during the day — the trivial in a dream is always standing in for something that matters.
A Dream (n.) leads, whenever you try to report your own, to things you would rather not admit even to yourself — the dream-interpreter's discretion is built into the material.
A Dream (n.) was understood better by the superstitious crowd than by the doctors.
An Nightmare (n.) is the conscientious night-watchman who first hushes the disturbance and then, if it's too serious to handle alone, wakes the townsmen himself.
An Nightmare (n.) shows a repressed wish with too little disguise — anxiety takes the place of distortion and breaks the dream off.
Condensation (n.) makes the dream's chimera, like the beasts of Oriental folk-imagination, except that dreams invent fresh ones every night in inexhaustible variety.
Condensation (n.) works like Galton's family photographs: it lays images over one another so the common feature stands out and the contradictions wipe each other out.
Displacement (n.) is a transvaluation of psychical values: what blazes in the dream is trivial, and the faint, indistinct element is often the heart of the matter.
Displacement (n.) has the greater share in a dream the more obscure and confused it is.
Dream distortion (n.) is modelled on a subordinate who must say something his superior will not like to hear.
Dream distortion (n.) made the dream obscure so as not to betray the proscribed thoughts — its confusion is a disguise, not a defect.
A Symbol (n.) is still being made — the airship, newly invented, was at once adopted as a universal sexual symbol.
A Symbol (n.) can bear one meaning almost universally in dreams: rooms are women, their doors the openings of the body; a staircase is intercourse, a necktie the male organ.
Prophecy (n.) by dreams is real — but of the future we should like to happen, not the one that will; the popular mind, as usual, believes what it wishes.
Adulthood (n.) grasps the uselessness of wishing and postpones desire for the long, roundabout path of altering the external world.
Censorship (n.) sits on the frontier between two agencies and lets through only what is agreeable to it; what it rejects is, by definition, repressed.
A Childhood memory (n.) acts in a dream as a nucleus of crystallization, drawing the rest of the dream-thoughts to itself.