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The [[analyst]] is not the first interpreter of the dream: in narrating a dream the dreamer already [[acts]] as his or her own biased interpreter. One [[stage]] of the dream-work, known as 'secondary revision', consists in the reorganisation of the dream so as to [[present]] it in the form of a relatively consistent and comprehensible [[narrative]]. Secondary revision systematises the dream, fills in its gaps and smooths over its contradictions, reorders its chaotic elemerits into a more coherent fable. Secondary revision is at work when the dream is presented in the form of a [[verbal]] account. The [[conscious]] mind prefers to put the [[irrational]] dream-sequence into recognisable and familiar logical [[order]], involving a further [[distortion]] of the 'distortion' already achieved by the other mechanisms discussed above.ll
8 Jacques [[Lacan]]
Dreams provide our main, but not our only, access to the unconscious. There are also what Freud calls '[[parapraxes]]', unaccountable [[Slips of the Tongue|slips of the tongue]], failures of [[memory]], misreadings which can be traced to unconscious wishes and intentions. So important did Freud [[think]] these apparently casual accidents that in 1901 he wrote a [[whole]] book on the [[subject]], The [[Psychopathology]] of Everyday Life. In 1905 Freud published a work on [[The Subject|the subject ]] of jokes or of wit. Although appearing some time after The [[Interpretation]] of Dreams and [[The Psychopathology of Everyday Life]], the book can, be seen as being directly related to [[them]], and as being a product of the same period and concerns. As with his earlier work [[On Dreams|on dreams ]] and- slips, Freud spent some time classifying jokes and then eXplaining how each type - [[word]] plays, puns, jests, innocent jokes, tendentious ones involving [[obscenity]] or hostility - could be rendered intelligible in [[terms]] of the release in [[psychic]] [[energy]] they produced. Just as the [[mechanism]] of dreams served as a means whereby dammed-up [[psychic energy]] could be released harmlessly, so jokes fulfilled a similar function. The mechanism of repression can be outwitted in the process of joking, and the suppressed desire can find [[partial]] fulfilment, thereby producing a measure of [[satisfaction]].
