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to hold them down, nor quite unwilling that they should have their way once in this quiet manner. Intellect, no doubt, objects to their appearance, but, then, the intellect is still unawakened, and the will, on whose reflection its waking up depends, is both passive and by no means anxious to rouse it into activity. Intellect is fully aroused only when the will is unable to meet the situation, and turns on itself in its difficulty. It is in this sense that we like to understand Freud when he says:--
THE HOLY TRINITY.
"The dream is the guardian of sleep, not the disturber of it.... Either the mind does not concern itself at all with the causes of sensations, if it is able to do this in spite of their intensity or their significance, which is well understood by it; or it employs the dream to deny these stimuli, or, thirdly, if it is forced to recognise the stimulus, it secks to find that interpretation of the stimulus which shall represent the actual sensation as a component part of a situation which is desired and which is compatible with sleep. The actual sensation is woven into the dream in order to deprize it of its reality.... The correct interpretation, of which the sleeping mind is quite capable, would imply an active interest and would require that sleep be terminated; hence, of those interpretations which are possible at all, only those are admitted which are agreeable to the absolute censorship of the somatic wish...It is, as it were, confronted by the task of seeking what wish may be represented and fulfilled by means of the situation which is now actual."
The two chief characteristics of dreams, namely (1) incoherence and (2) the abolition of the sense of duration, have an important bearing on the point. They both arise primarily from the same cause, the loss of interest in the world of action. This brings about the mastery of time and space which cannot be conquered so long as the physical body is interposed between them and mind to make it impossible for fancy to jump over the contiguous in duration and distance. Where
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