The Interpretation of Dreams. Freud, (2)
The reproduced material of dreams comes from experiences stored in memory, memories inaccessible in waking and already forgotton which seem alien to us in waking. One of the sources to this material is childhood memories. But why do these dreams keep coming to us? Volkelt (1875) remarks "dreams are continuously reminding us of things which we have ceased to think of and which have long ceased to be important to us." Dreams can feed on memories of recent time or very long ago, however it is false to believe that dreams have special missions to remind us of unimportant pieces of forgotten memory. Contrary to what Volkelt holds, my belief is that sometimes when the mind is engaged in an important insurmountable problem, our mind is kept busy with it even in dream life.
The relation between memory and the content of dream: in waking the mind deals with major and important (striking) issues, but in dreams what is reproduced is not "what is most important, but on the contrary, what is most indifferent and insifnificant as well." Dreams are fragmentary manifestation of reproductive activity of the mind "which is an end to itself."
I should add my own point here. I guess because at night or any time when the conscious state is switched off as a result of which ego is retired then, and of course the superego being absent, it is only the id which is left active. It is not unacceptable if we think the inhibitted (recent or old) wishes, thoughts etc which are stored (prohibited and inhibited by ego and not permitted expression in waking life) in the unconscious try to find a way out in the form of dreams. This doesn't hold all the time, sometimes a dream as said above is an unimportant forgotten memory. That's why Freud later comes up with the idea that an author's text is like his/er dream and should be given due attention because the constant unresolved conflicts between the ego and the id cause neurosis and one way for the mind to let them a sleuce hole is via expressing them converted into text, sometimes in the form of dreams and still sometimes in unnatural abnormalities (if any chasm to get out is blocked) such as psychic tics and so many different ways to show themsleves in a distorted manner.
The relation between memory and the content of dream: in waking the mind deals with major and important (striking) issues, but in dreams what is reproduced is not "what is most important, but on the contrary, what is most indifferent and insifnificant as well." Dreams are fragmentary manifestation of reproductive activity of the mind "which is an end to itself."
I should add my own point here. I guess because at night or any time when the conscious state is switched off as a result of which ego is retired then, and of course the superego being absent, it is only the id which is left active. It is not unacceptable if we think the inhibitted (recent or old) wishes, thoughts etc which are stored (prohibited and inhibited by ego and not permitted expression in waking life) in the unconscious try to find a way out in the form of dreams. This doesn't hold all the time, sometimes a dream as said above is an unimportant forgotten memory. That's why Freud later comes up with the idea that an author's text is like his/er dream and should be given due attention because the constant unresolved conflicts between the ego and the id cause neurosis and one way for the mind to let them a sleuce hole is via expressing them converted into text, sometimes in the form of dreams and still sometimes in unnatural abnormalities (if any chasm to get out is blocked) such as psychic tics and so many different ways to show themsleves in a distorted manner.
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