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the other component parts of which are the remnants of daily experience with which we are familiar,"
As regards the distortion in dreams of the idea associated with a wish, the explanation given is :
" Wherever a wish fulfiment is unrecognisable and concealed, there must be present a feeling of repulsion towards this wish, and in consequence of this repulsion the wish is unable to gain expression except in a disguised state............... We should then assume in each human being, as the primary cause of dream formation, two psychic forces (streams, systems), of which one constitutes the wish expressed by the dream, while the other acts as a censor upon this dream wish, and by means of censoring forces a distortion of its expression."
In the light of our knowledge of the mental equipment and of the processes of perception and memory, the censorship in dreaming results from the distorted mental impressions formed in the mind in connection with wishes which are revolting to one's conscience or taste, such distortion occurring not at the time of dreaming, but some time previously, that is, when they are discovered to be reprehensible. These distorted impressions linger in the deeper strata of the mind, called the sub-conscious, and, in combination with some sensation which cannot be ignored, rush up in time to occupy the central position in the scene whose type is determined by the incoming stimulus. As Mr. Maurice Nicoll of Dr. Jung's school of thought, which does not accept the Freudian hypothesis in its entirety, observes in his 'Dream Psychology' (p. 176), the more this repressed material is charged with emotion, the more will it seek expression.
The drowsy, somnolent will which is really the author of the being of these repressed wishes is neither able
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