The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud Chapter 3 Page 33

belong only to dreams, but is likewise dominant in legend, myth, and saga, in wit and in folklore. It compels us to pursue the inner meaning of the dream in these productions. But we must acknowledge that symbolism is not a result of the dream work, but is a peculiarity probably of our unconscious thinking, which furnishes to the dream work the matter for condensation, displacement, and dramatization.

Footnote 1: Freud, “Three Contributions to Sexual Theory,” translated by A.

A. Brill (Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company, New York).

Footnote 2: The words from “and” to “channels” in the next sentence is a short summary of the passage in the original. As this book will be read by other than