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14TH CONFERENCE: WISH FULFILLMENT (201-2; 204-8)Sigmund Freud (1916)
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We have made no concessions to the objection against the wish-fulfilment theory. We are bound to highlight wish fulfilment in
any disfigured dream. We use the dream of the three bad localities as an example.
The lady dreams of being at the theatre with her husband, where they discuss Elisa's bad localities. We interpret the dream
thoughts related to her annoyance at her early marriage and her dissatisfaction with her husband. We investigate how these
thoughts become a wish fulfilment in the dream.
The element "too early, too hastily" was removed from the dream by censorship. The empty stalls allude to this idea. The enigmatic
"three for 1 guilder and 50" is interpreted as buying a husband in exchange for the dowry. The substitution of marriage for going
to the theatre is the work of wish-fulfilment.
The dreamer was dissatisfied with her early marriage when she received the news of her friend's betrothal. Before, she was proud
of her marriage, but now she regrets it. A visit to the theatre becomes an allusive substitute for being married. In her current
annoyance at her early marriage, the dreamer goes back to the pleasure she felt in going to the theatre before marriage.
They are absolutely right to point out that we have used an abbreviated twist when talking about "sleep". It is essential to
distinguish between the manifest dream and the latent thoughts that constitute it. Dream work remodels these thoughts into the
manifest dream, adding elements that do not belong to the latent thoughts of the day, such as unconscious desire.
The dream, therefore, is always the fulfilment of an unconscious desire. It is not simply a warning or a design, but the expression
of an unconscious desire remodelled to fulfil these desires. One of those characters, wish-fulfilment, is constant, while the others
can vary.
We understand that this concept can be difficult to assimilate without a detailed analysis of many dreams. However, it is crucial to
our understanding of the dream phenomenon. Take, for example, the dream of the three theatre seats in exchange for one guilder
and fifty, where the dreamer's unconscious desire to experience something else before getting married is evident.
At first, I used this dream as an example without a specific purpose. The latent thoughts that compose it include the annoyance of
early marriage and the desire to go to the theatre. This desire, though seemingly trivial, has deeper roots in childhood curiosity
about a parent's sex life.
They were right to point out that the news received that day generated no pleasure to watch, only annoyance and regret. This
desire was not present in the original latent thoughts, so we were able to interpret the dream without considering it. The
annoyance was not justifiable in itself, either; A dream would not arise simply from the thought of having married early, but it
awakened the desire to experience what had been lost in marriage.
This desire transformed the content of the dream, replacing marriage with going to the theatre and reversing the present situation
into a past victory over the recent defeat. In addition to the pleasure of watching, a competitive satisfaction was woven into the
dream, where the dreamer rejoices in being in the theatre while her friend cannot. However, these fragments of the dream's
content conceal latent thoughts, which reveal an inner conflict.
My intention now is to direct your attention to the latent thoughts of the dream, which are unconscious to the dreamer, but
coherent and comprehensible to us. I will call them "diurnal remains" and differentiate them from latent dream thoughts, which
are the result of dream interpretation. The diurnal remains are only a part of the latter, and it is the interaction between the diurnal
remains and the unconscious desire that results in the formation of the dream.
To illustrate this relationship, I used an analogy with a capitalist and an entrepreneur, where unconscious desire acts as the
capitalist who provides the psychic energy, and the daytime remains as the entrepreneur who decides how to use it. This
relationship can vary, but it is essential to understanding sleep formation.
You are likely to wonder if the diurnal remains are really unconscious in the same sense as unconscious desire. This is a principal
issue that deserves consideration. Daytime remnants are conscious in the same way; They belong to a different type of
unconscious, related to the infantile origin. We may need different designations to distinguish these two forms of the unconscious,
but that is something we will leave to explore in the future, once we have delved into the field of neuroses.
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