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TWELFTH LECTURE THE DREAM Analysis of Sample Dreams IHOPE you will not be disappointed if I again lay before you excerpts from dream analyses instead of inviting you to participate in the interpretation of a beautiful long dream . You will say that after so much preparation you ought to have this right , and that after the successful interpretation of so many thousands of dreams it should long ago have become possible to assemble a collection of excellent dream samples with which we could demonstrate all our assertions concerning dream - work and dream thoughts . Yes , but the difficulties which stand in the way of the fulfillment of your wish are too many . First of all , I must confess to you that no one practices dream interpretation as his main occupation . When does one interpret dreams ? Occasionally one can occupy himself with the dream of some friend , without any special purpose , or else he may work with his own dreams for a time in order to school himself in psychoanalytic method ; most often , however , one deals with the dreams of nervous individuals who are undergoing analytic treatment . These latter dreams are excellent material , and in no way inferior to those of normal persons , but one is forced by the technique of the treatment to subordinate dream analysis to therapeutic aims and to pass over a large number of dreams after having derived something from them that is of use in the treatment . Many dreams we meet with during the treatment are , as a matter of fact , impossible of complete analysis . Since they spring from the total mass of psychic material which is still unknown to us , their understanding becomes possible only after the completion of the cure . Besides , to tell you such dreams would necessitate the disclosure of all the secrets concerning a neurosis . That will not do for us , since we have taken the dream as preparation for the study of the neuroses . I know you would gladly leave this material , and would prefer to hear the dreams of healthy persons , or your own dreams explained . But that is impossible because of the content of these dreams . One can expose neither himself , nor another whose confidence he has won , so inconsiderately as would result from a thorough interpretation of his dreams — which , as you already know , refer to the most intimate things of his personality . In addition to this difficulty , caused by the nature of the material , there is another that must be considered when communicating a dream . You know the dream seems strange even to the dreamer himself , let alone to one who does not know the dreamer . Our literature is not poor in good and detailed dream analyses . I myself have published some in connection with case histories . Perhaps the best example of a dream interpretation is the one published by O . Rank , being two related dreams of a young girl , covering about two pages of print , the analysis covering seventy - six pages . I would need about a whole semester in order to take you through such a task .
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