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Term used in [[psychoanalysis]] to describe the mechanisms that transform the raw [[materials ]] of a [[dream]] into its [[manifest content]].
Typically the raw materials will include [[physical ]] stimuli, day's residues (elements from the dayu's waking [[state ]] that appear either in the dream itself or in the dreamer's [[free association]]s) and dream-[[thought ]] ([[latent content]]).
The principal mechanisms of the [[deam-work]] are [[condensation]] and [[displacement]].
Considerations of representability select, transform and [[censor ]] dream-[[thoughts ]] so as to allow [[them ]] to be represented - usually in the [[form ]] of [[visual ]] [[images ]] - whilst secondary revision arranges them into a relatively coherent scenario or [[narrative]].
The [[dream-work]] does not create anything and merely transform existing [[material]].
It is the [[dream-work]] and not the [[latent content]] that constitutes the [[essence ]] of a [[dream]].
[[Freud ]] introduced the [[notion ]] of "dream work" to clearly emphasize that the dream is not the result, as was generally thought to be the [[case]], of a weakened state of [[mental ]] [[activity ]] producing incoherent fragments, but, on the contrary, the outcome of very [[complex ]] [[psychic ]] work.
This was the notion that was articulated in ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' (1900a), based on a fundamental hypothesis: the dream represents a fulfillment of desires that are [[repressed ]] in waking [[life]], but this realization is typically disguised so as to [[pass ]] through [[censorship ]] during [[sleep]]. The "dream work" is [[responsible ]] for this disguise.
The "materials" used in this [[process ]] are essentially of two types: residues of the day, that is to say "mnemonic traces" of events, thoughts, affects, etc., of waking life (usually [[recent]]), and [[bodily ]] sensations during sleep (hunger, thirst, [[pain]], etc., but particularly [[erotic ]] [[excitation]]).
The source of the dream, however, is to be found in conflicts and wishes of childhood—oedipal childhood—[[oedipal]] conflicts prominent among them .
[[Condensation]] and [[displacement]] use a stock of easily available images, which are residues of the day.
The first [[phase ]] of the dream produces the [[manifest ]] [[content]], which is the unrecognizable [[translation ]] of the "[[latent ]] thoughts" that can be made [[conscious ]] through [[analysis]].
However, the manifest content has to be subjected to a secondary revision upon awakening in [[order ]] to create a superficial [[coherence ]] in the remembered and repeated dream.
It is significant that while Freud described these primary and secondary [[processes ]] as the two phases of the dream work, he also considered them as the two processes governing mental activity: the "primary processes," characterized by the free flowing of an unbound [[energy]]; and "secondary processes," dominated by [[rational ]] [[intellectual ]] activity and [[bound energy]].
Consequently, there is a wide chasm between the primary and secondary processes that can be revealed by dissection of the dream work.
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