Freud introduced the notion of "dream work" to clearly emphasize that the #redirect [[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... [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Terms]][[Category:Concepts]]
