Chapter Vi 177

THE DREAM AND ITS ANALYSIS IN AN ORGANISMIC INTERPRETATION OF THE NEUROSES

To analyze the dream from a basis that is equally separative and repressed is to exchange the symbols of the individual’s repression for analogous symbols of the social repression--The night’s reaction, being individual, and the day’s reaction, being social, both represent an endeavour to adjust vicariously man’s societal disunity--The affective or subjective life cannot be adjusted through the study of the objective mechanisms that merely reflect it but only through the subjective (conscious) reabsorption within us of the affects to whose suggestion the dream is the mirrored reaction--The drama and the dream are identical in mechanism--An organic mode of consciousness can regard with equally objective clarity the vicarious processes of the day and of the night.