The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud Chapter 8 Page 25

adhere, become a matter of secondary importance. One might possibly think that the condensation and compromise formation is effected only in the service of regression, when occasion arises for changing thoughts into pictures. But the analysis and — still more distinctly — the synthesis of dreams which lack regression toward pictures, e.

g. the dream “Autodidasker — Conversation with Court-Councilor N.,” present the same processes of displacement and condensation as the others.

Hence we cannot refuse to acknowledge that the two kinds of essentially different psychic processes participate in the formation of the dream; one forms perfectly correct dream thoughts which are equivalent to normal thoughts, while the other treats these ideas in a highly surprising