Freud called the interpretation of
dreams the 'Royal road' to the discovery of the unconscious - that is to
say, it is the 'King's highway' along which everyone can travel to discover
the truth of unconscious processes for themselves. Everybody dreams, and
because of this it is one of the most important ways for students to grasp
Freud's theory of psychoanalysis in a practical way.
The Structure of The Interpretation of Dreams.
The argument in Freud's book The Interpretation of Dreams goes something like this:(1) "Dreams are the fulfilment of a wish"
(2) "Dreams are the disguised fulfilment of a wish"
(3) "Dreams are the disguised fulfilment of a repressed wish"
(4) "Dreams are the disguised fulfilment
of a repressed, infantile wish"
We can go through these propositions
in a little more detail in the following pages.
"Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo""If I cannot bend the Higher Powers, I will move the Infernal regions"