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Updated: May 22, 2025
The dream is one of three things, the open, the disguised or the distorted fulfillment of a wish, sometimes recognized, sometimes repressed. "Anxiety dreams are among the most interesting and important Anxiety may originate in psycho-sexual excitement, the repressed libido, as the Freudists call it.
Yet the very manner of her indignation showed the truth of the new psychology of dreams, for, as I learned afterward, people often become indignant when the Freudists strike what is called the "main complex." "There are other motives just as important," protested Dr. Boss. "Here in America the money motive, ambition " "Let me finish," interposed Kennedy. "I want to consider the other dream also.
"In spite of the work of thousands of years, little progress has been made in the scientific understanding of dreams," he remarked a few moments later. "Freud, of Vienna you recall the name? has done most, I think in that direction." I recalled something of the theories of the Freudists, but said nothing.
"Obsessions and phobias have their origin, according to Freud, in sexual life. The obsession represents a compensation or substitute for an unbearable sexual idea and takes its place in consciousness. In normal sexual life, no neurosis is possible, say the Freudists. Sex is the strongest impulse, yet subject to the greatest repression, and hence the weakest point of our cultural development.
Let me proceed now with what the Freudists call the psychanalysis, the soul analysis, of Mrs. Maitland." It was startling in the extreme to consider the possibilities to which this new science might lead, as he proceeded to illustrate it. "Mrs. Maitland," he continued, "your dream of fear was a dream of what we call the fulfilment of a suppressed wish.
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