Dream Interpretation at Freud and Jung
Sigmund Freud about Dream Interpretation (continue)
Freud stated that dreams are fulfillment of repressed wishes. Below we offer 2 examples from his Dream Interpretation book (1900) of this kind of dreams.
It is quite as simple a matter to discover the wish-fulfilment in several other dreams which I have collected from healthy persons. A friend who was acquainted with my theory of dreams,
and had explained it to his wife, said to me one day: "My wife asked me to tell you that she dreamt yesterday that she was having her menses. You will know what that means." Of course I know: if the young wife dreams that
she is having her menses, the menses have stopped. I can well imagine that she would have liked to enjoy her freedom a little longer, before the discomforts of maternity began. It was a clever way of giving notice of her first
pregnancy. Another friend writes that his wife had dreamt not long ago that she noticed milk- stains on the front of her blouse. This also is an indication of pregnancy, but not of the first one; the young mother hoped she would
have more nourishment for the second child than she had for the first. A young woman who for weeks had been cut off from all society because she was nursing a child who was suffering from an infectious disease dreamt, after the
child had recovered, of a company of people in which Alphonse Daudet, Paul Bourget, Marcel Prevost and others were present; they were all very pleasant to her and amused her enormously. In her dream these different authors had the
features which their portraits give them. M. Prevost, with whose portrait she is not familiar, looked like the man who had disinfected the sickroom the day before, the first outsider to enter it for a long time. Obviously the dream
is to be translated thus: "It is about time now for something more entertaining than this eternal nursing."
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