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THIRTEENTH LECTURE THE DREAM Archaic Remnants and Infantilism in the Dream LET us revert to our conclusion that the dream - work , under the influence of the dream censorship , transforms the latent dream thoughts into some other form of expression . The latent thoughts are no other than the conscious thoughts known to us in our waking hours ; the new mode of expression is incomprehensible to us because of its many - sided features . We have said it extends back to conditions of our intellectual development which we have long progressed beyond , to the language of pictures , the symbol - representations , perhaps to those conditions which were in force before the development of our language of thought . So we called the mode of expression of the dream - work the archaic or regressive . You may conclude that as a result of the deeper study of the dream - work we gain valuable information about the rather unknown beginnings of our intellectual development . I trust this will be true , but this work has not , up to the present time , been undertaken . The antiquity into which the dream - work carries us back is of a double aspect , firstly , the individual antiquity , childhood ; and , secondly ( in so far as every individual in his childhood lives over again in some more or less abbreviated manner the entire development of the human race ) , also this antiquity , the philogenetic . That we shall be able to differentiate which part of the latent psychic proceeding has its source in the individual , and which part in the philogenetic antiquity is not improbable . In this connection it appears to me , for example , that the symbolic relations which the individual has never learned are ground for the belief that they should be regarded as a philogenetic inheritance . However , this is not the only archaic characteristic of the dream . You probably all know from your own experiences the peculiar amnesia , that is , loss of memory , concerning childhood . I mean the fact that the first years , to the fifth , sixth or eighth , have not left the same traces in our memory as have later experiences . One meets with individual persons , to be sure , who can boast of a continuous memory from the very beginning to the present day , but the other condition , that of a gap in the memory , is far more frequent . I believe we have not laid enough stress on this fact . The child is able to speak well at the age of two , it soon shows that it can become adjusted to the most complicated psychic situations , and makes remarks which years later are retold to it , but which it has itself entirely forgotten . Besides , the memory in the early years is more facile , because it is less burdened than in later years . Nor is there any reason for considering the memory - function as a particularly high or difficult psychic performance ; in fact , the contrary is true , and you can find a good memory in persons who stand very low intellectually .
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