myself by a pollution; I prefer to defer it in favor of a real situation.”

Footnote 1: They share this character of indestructibility with all psychic acts that are really unconscious — that is, with psychic acts belonging to the system of the unconscious only.

These paths are constantly open and never fall into disuse; they conduct the discharge of the exciting process as often as it becomes endowed with unconscious excitement To speak metaphorically they suffer the same form of annihilation as the shades of the lower region in the Odyssey, who awoke to new life the moment they drank blood. The processes depending on the foreconscious system are destructible in a different way. The psychotherapy of the neuroses is based on this difference.

Footnote 2: Le Lorrain justly extols the wish-fulfilment of the dream: