CHAPTER VII. Symbolism in Dreams

SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS

The Dramatisation of Subjective Feelings Based on Dissociation--Analogies in Waking Life--The Synaesthesias and Number-forms--Symbolism in Language--In Music--The Organic Basis of Dream Symbolism--The Omnipotence of Symbolism--Oneiromancy--The Scientific Interpretation of Dreams--Why Symbolism prevails in Dreaming--Freud's Theory of Dreaming--Dreams as Fulfilled Wishes--Why this Theory cannot be applied to all Dreaming--The Complete Form of Symbolism in Dreams--Splitting up of Personality--Self-objectivation in Imaginary Personalities--The Dramatic Element in Dreams--Hallucinations--Multiple Personality--Insanity--Self-objectivation a Primitive Tendency--Its Survival in Civilisation, 148