Dreams

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The essays examine dreaming as a window onto the unconscious, arguing that dreams occur when stored memories press upward into semi-consciousness and escape during sleep like steam through a valve. Dreams are presented as selective recombinations of past impressions that reorganize perception and feeling rather than as purely mystical omens or meaningless noise. The author contrasts dream-processes with waking thought, considers how dream-material can reveal hidden motives and associations, and outlines philosophical and psychological methods for interpreting dream imagery to better understand how memory shapes present consciousness.

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[1] Author's note (1913). This would be the place where especially will intervene those "repressed desires" which Freud and certain other psychologists, especially in America, have studied with such penetration and ingenuity. (See in particular the recent volumes of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, published in Boston by Dr. Morton Prince.) When the above address was delivered (1901) the work of Freud on dreams (Die Traumdeutung) had been already published, but "psycho-analysis" was far from having the development that it has to-day. (H. B.)