The Interpretation of Dreams
http://www.haverford.edu/psych/ddavis/F_intdre.html
Chapter 1: The Scientific Literature...
Freud's discussion of why dreams are forgotten touches a variety of the concerns of modern cognitive psychology. Dreams are a continuation of the thought processes of the day, under the altered conditions of sleep.
Chapter 2: The Method of Interpreting Dreams: An Analysis of a Specimen Dream
Freud begins by distinguishing from his own interpretive method both the "symbolic" (e.g. Joseph's interpretation of Pharaoh's dream of fat and lean cows as signifying good and bad Egyptian harvests), and the "decoding" (in which each dream element is looked up in a list in which, e.g., "letter" means "trouble" and "funeral" means "betrothal") approaches.
Irma's Injection(hypertext version)
the hall: Bellevue ...
Irma: Female hysterics ...
"Irma's" pale and puffy face: Pregnancy ...
Irma's throat: Diphtheria ...
Irma's "throat's" curly structures: Nasal neurosis ...
M's beardless face and limp: Contempt ...
Irma's percussed body: Eroticism, shame ...
propyl ... trimethylamin: Sex ...
The "latent" (inferred) content
"I am not responsible for Irma's troubles."
"Her problem is sexual unfulfillment, not hysteria."
"Breuer/Oscar/Rosenberg made her sick, not me."
"What she needs is a good dose of ... trimethyl amine."
"She's too sexual/attractive/seductive for her/my own good."
Labels: Psychoanalysis
