Dream
The dream, guardian of sleep, provides disguised satisfaction for wishes that are repressed while we are awake; dream interpretation is the "royal road that leads to knowledge of the unconscious in psychic life." Such, in highly condensed form, is Freud's theory as set forth in the founding work of psychoanalysis, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900a). As Freud himself pointed out, this was a revolutionary thesis.
The only scientists interested in dreams during the late nineteenth century were psychologists looking for "elements" of...
dream, 25-6, 35, 37, 39, 43-5, 55-60, 68, 70, 74-5, 130, 136, 155, 208 Seminar XI
