The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud Chapter 8 Page 24

associations of the sound and consonance types.

4. Contradictory thoughts do not strive to eliminate one another, but remain side by side.

They often unite to produce condensation as if no contradiction existed, or they form compromises for which we should never forgive our thoughts, but which we frequently approve of in our actions.

These are some of the most conspicuous abnormal processes to which the thoughts which have previously been rationally formed are subjected in the course of the dream-work. As the main feature of these processes we recognize the high importance attached to the fact of rendering the occupation energy mobile and capable of discharge; the content and the actual significance of the psychic elements, to which these energies