FREUD & LACAN

According to Sigmund Freud a dream work is the work which transforms the latent dream into a manifest one. It is broken into three different achievements: condensations, displacements, regressive transformations of thoughts into images. During condensations, “by that we understand the fact that the manifest dream has a smaller content than the latent one, and is thus an abbreviated translation of it.” Displacements “manifests itself in two ways: in the first, a latent element is replaced not by a component part of itself but by something more remote- that is, by allusion; and in the second, the physical accent is shifted from an important element on to another which is unimportant, so that the dream appears differently centred and strange.” In literature we might bump into situations like this. We imagine something entirely different from its real meaning which may not make any sense. In the transformations of thoughts into images… the thoughts are transformed into images. That’s basically what it is. He gave an example of replacing an article with picture writing. You can easily replace the people in the article into pictures but “the difficulties will begin when you come to representation of abstract words and of all those parts of speech which indicates between thoughts.”