dreamwork

is at bottom nothing other than a particular form of thinking -the dream-work is the essence of it's form.

At bottom, dreams are nothing other than a particular form of thinking, made possible by the conditions of the state of sleep. It is the dream-work which creates that form, and it alone is the essence of dreaming the explanation of its particular nature. (Freud 1977: 650 in Zizek 1989: 14))

is comprised of condensation, displacement, translation.

is the representation of a representation that bears an uncanny resemblance to the narration that appears only to report it.

Freud's representation of the dreamwork is, of course, the representation of a representation that bears an uncanny resemblance to the narration that appears only to report it' (Meisel 'freud's reflexive realism' october 198:447)

is the work done after upon waking of unpacking and organizing the chaos of a dream into a sensible script. It concerns the four techniques of condensation, displacement, representation, and the imposition of unity.

In The Interpretation of Dreams, he list the four techniques employed by the dream-work of the psychic apparatus to distort or 'refract' the dream-thought (psychic content) to produce the pictographic script of the dream: condensation, displacement, considerations of representability, and secondary revision. 'Condensation' and-»displacement' may be rhetorically translated as metaphor and metonymy.46 The third item on the list points at the technique which distorts an idea so that it can be presented as an image. Freud's description of the fourth item recalls Nietzsche's words on the will to power seeking to preserve unification, as well as Derrida's description of the text in general: 'A dream is a conglomerate which, for purposes of investigation, must be broken up once more into fragments. . . . A psychical force is at work [is displayed, a ussert] in dreams which creates this apparent connectedness, which . . . submits the material produced by the dream-work to a `secondary revision.' ' (GW II-III. 451-52, SE V. 449) I reopen the question of Freud and textuality on page Ixxvi. (spivak in on grammatology : 46)

dreamwork, n.Definitions

dreamwork