This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... Chapter VI The Function of Dreams SINCE everybody dreams, and since sleep is necessary for the needed repair of our physical energies, a point of great practical importance concerns itself with the question: What is the use of dreams? What is gained by dreaming? It can be shown through dream-analysis ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... Chapter VI The Function of Dreams SINCE everybody dreams, and since sleep is necessary for the needed repair of our physical energies, a point of great practical importance concerns itself with the question: What is the use of dreams? What is gained by dreaming? It can be shown through dream-analysis that dreams subserve a definite function in our mental life in that they really act as protectors and not as disturbers of sleep. This guardianship of sleep by means of dreams is due to the persistent dynamic action of the censor. In sleep the censor is exceedingly active, and its function is to protect sleep from the mass of repressed emotions which threaten to overwhelm the sleeper in the shape of a dream. This is done by means of the dream mechanisms already discussed, in which the dream thoughts are fused and displaced, thus undergoing such disguise and symbolization as to be unrecognizable to the sleeper and consequently not disturbing to him. When the censor nods or is evaded, when the literal dream thoughts bombard and invade consciousness in an undisguised form, sleep is disturbed and insomnia results. This is the origin of many types of socalled functional insomnia, sleep being troubled by a series of anxiety dreams. Only when the dreams are completely analyzed, Tand the unconscious mental processes thereby become stilled, when the censor is once more allowed to stand guard over the portal leading from the unconscious to the conscious, will refreshing sleep again result. Such a cure can be brought about only through psycho-analysis. It is these two mechanisms of psychical repression and censorship which prevent the egotistic and savage wishes of childhood from reaching our daily consciousness, and which only occasionally appear in...
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