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CHAPTER VII THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE DREAM- PROCESSES* ‘Auoio the dreams which have been reported to me by other ‘people, there is one which has special claims upon our attention AL this point. It was told to me by a woman patient who had herself heard it in a tecture on dream: Its actual source fll unknown to me, Tt content made an impression on the lady, hhowever, and she proceeded to ‘re-dream it that is, cepeat some ofits elements ina dream of her own, v0 that, by taking it over in this way, sbe might express her agreement with it on ‘one particular point, “The preliminaries to this model dream were as follows. A. father had been watching beside his childs sick-bed for days and nights on end. After the child had died, he went into the ‘ext room to Tie down, but left the door open so that he exald. sce from his bedroom into the roomt in which his child's body ‘was laid out, with tll candles standing round it. An old man ‘had been engaged to keep watch over ity and sat beside the body ‘murmuring prayer After a few hours sleep, the father had a dream that is ehild was standing bade his ed, caught im by he fam and whispered to him reproach: "Father, dent you sce P'm ‘hing? He woke up, noticed a bright glare of light from the next room, hurried into it and found that the old watchman, hhad dropped off to sleep and that the wrappings and one ofthe arms of his beloved child's dead body had been burned by a lighted candle that had fallen om them. ‘The explanation ofthis moving éreama is simple enough and, 10 my patient rld me, was correctly given by the leesscer, The sare of light hone through the open door into the sleeping ‘man’s eyes and led him to the conclusion which he would have arrived at ithe had been awake, namely that a candle had fallen ‘over and set something alight inthe neighbourhood ofthe body. 1 [Some ight ha ben thrown on the Pcl presented inthe ater secsora of th chapter by Freud eary correspondenea ith Wilkelen Few (Freud 1850). CF we Bins Hntraaron = #).) vin ZUR PSYCHOLOGIE DER TRAUMVORGANGE* ‘Unter den Teiumen, die ch durch Miteilung von sien anderererfah- ren habe, befindet sch cine, der jes einen gant besonderen Ansprach sof unsere Beachtung erbebe Erin mit von einer Patientin erathle wor den, die ihn selbst in einer Vorlesang Uber den Traum kennengelernt hat; seine eigentlche Quelle it mie unbekannt geblieben. Jener Dame aber hat er durch seinen Inhale Eindruck gerade, dena sie ha es nicht ‘ersiumt, thn snaczutriumene, d-h. Elemente des Teaums in einem cigenen Traum 7u wiederholen, um durch dieee Ubertragung cine Obet~

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