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We may , to be sure , propound the question : what forces the psychological activity during sleep to such regression ? Why do not the sleep disturbing psychic stimuli do the job without it ? And if they must , because of the dream censorship , disguise themselves through old forms of expression which are no longer comprehensible , what is the use of giving new life to old , long - outgrown psychic stimuli , wishes and character types , that is , why the material regression in addition to the formal ? The only satisfactory answer would be this , that only in this manner can a dream be built up , that dynamically the dream - stimulus can be satisfied only in this way . But for the time being we have no right to give such an answer . FOURTEENTH LECTURE THE DREAM Wish Fulfillment MAY I bring to your attention once more the ground we have already covered ? How , when we met with dream distortion in the application of our technique , we decided to leave it alone for the time being , and set out to obtain decisive information about the nature of the dream by way of infantile dreams ? How , then , armed with the results of this investigation , we attacked dream distortion directly and , I trust , in some measure overcame it ? But we must remind ourselves that the results we found along the one way and along the other do not fit together as well as might be . It is now our task to put these two results together and balance them against one another . From both sources we have seen that the dream - work consists essentially in the transposition of thoughts into an hallucinatory experience . How that can take place is puzzling enough , but it is a problem of general psychology with which we shall not busy ourselves here . We have learned from the dreams of children that the purpose of the dream - work is the satisfaction of one of the sleep - disturbing psychic stimuli by means of a wish fulfillment . We were unable to make a similar statement concerning distorted dreams , until we knew how to interpret them . But from the very beginning we expected to be able to bring the distorted dreams under the same viewpoint as the infantile . The earliest fulfillment of this expectation led us to believe that as a matter of fact all dreams are the dreams of children and that they all work with infantile materials , through childish psychic stimuli and mechanics . Since we consider that we have conquered dream - distortion , we must continue the investigation to see whether our hypothesis of wish - fulfillment holds good for distorted dreams also . We very recently subjected a number of dreams to interpretation , but left wish - fulfillment entirely out of consideration . I am convinced that the question again and again occurred to you : " What about wish - fulfillment , which ostensibly is the goal of dream - work ? " This question is important . It was , in fact , the question of our lay - critics . As you know , humanity has an instinctive antagonism toward intellectual novelties .
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