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
literature, I refer him to the works of Sante de Sanctis (I sogni,
Turin, 1899). For a more complete investigation of my conception of the
dream, my work should be consulted: “Die Traumdeutung,” Leipzig and
Vienna, third edition, 1911.[5] I will only point out in what direction
my exposition on dream work should be followed up.
Footnote 5:
Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams,” third edition, translated by A.
A. Brill. London: George Allen and Company, Ltd.
If I posit as the problem of dream interpretation the replacement of the
dream by its latent ideas—that is, the resolution of that which the
dream work has woven—I raise a series of new psychological problems
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 consciousness until it is rendered in the distorted form of the
dream content. I am compelled to believe that all persons have such
ideas, since nearly all, even the most normal, can have dreams. To the
unconsciousness of dream ideas, or their relationship to consciousness
and to repression, are linked questions of the greatest psychological
importance. Their solution must be postponed until the analysis of the
origin of other psychopathic growths, such as the symptoms of hysteria
and of obsessions, has been made clear.