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explanation for my being impelled to select just this substitution f
or
the day thought. I must have always been prepared in the Unc. to
identify myself with Professor R., as it meant the realization of on
e of
the immortal infantile wishes, viz. that of becoming great. Repulsiv
e
ideas respecting my friend, that would certainly have been repudiate
d
in a waking state, took advantage of the opportunity to creep into t
he
dream, but the worry of the day likewise found some form of expressi
on
through a substitution in the dream content. The day thought, which
was
no wish in itself but rather a worry, had in some way to find a
connection with the infantile now unconscious and suppressed wish, w
hich
then allowed it, though already properly prepared, to "originate" fo
r
consciousness. The more dominating this worry, the stronger must be
the
connection to be established; between the contents of the wish and t
hat
of the worry there need be no connection, nor was there one in any o
f
our examples.
We can now sharply define the significance of the unconscious wish f
or
the dream. It may be admitted that there is a whole class of dreams
in
which the incitement originates preponderatingly or even exclusively
from the remnants of daily life; and I believe that even my cherishe
d
desire to become at some future time a "professor extraordinarius" w
ould
have allowed me to slumber undisturbed that night had not my worry a
bout
my friend's health been still active. But this worry alone would not
have produced a dream; the motive power needed by the dream had to b
e
contributed by a wish, and it was the affair of the worriment to
procure for itself such wish as a motive power of the dream. To spea
k
figuratively, it is quite possible that a day thought plays the part
of
the contractor (_entrepreneur_) in the dream. But it is known that n
o
matter what idea the contractor may have in mind, and how desirous h
e
may be of putting it into operation, he can do nothing without capit
al;
he must depend upon a capitalist to defray the necessary expenses, a
nd
this capitalist, who supplies the psychic expenditure for the dream
is
invariably and indisputably _a wish from the unconscious_, no matter
what the nature of the waking thought may be.
In other cases the capitalist himself is the contractor for the drea
m;
this, indeed, seems to be the more usual case. An unconscious wish i
s
produced by the day's work, which in turn creates the dream. The dre
am
processes, moreover, run parallel with all the other possibilities o
f
the economic relationship used here as an illustration. Thus, the
entrepreneur may contribute some capital himself, or several
entrepreneurs may seek the aid of the same capitalist, or several
capitalists may jointly supply the capital required by the entrepren
eur.
Thus there are dreams produced by more than one dream-wish, and many
similar variations which may readily be passed over and are of no
further interest to us. What we have left unfinished in this discuss
ion
of the dream-wish we shall be able to develop later.
The "tertium comparationis" in the comparisons just employed--_i.e._
the
sum placed at our free disposal in proper allotment--admits of still
finer application for the illustration of the dream structure. We ca
n
recognize in most dreams a center especially supplied with perceptib
le
intensity. This is regularly the direct representation of the
wish-fulfillment; for, if we undo the displacements of the dream-wor
k by
a process of retrogression, we find that the psychic intensity of th
e
elements in the dream thoughts is replaced by the perceptible intens
ity
of the elements in the dream content. The elements adjoining the
wish-fulfillment have frequently nothing to do with its sense, but p
rove
to be descendants of painful thoughts which oppose the wish. But, ow
ing
to their frequently artificial connection with the central element,
they
have acquired sufficient intensity to enable them to come to express
ion.
Thus, the force of expression of the wish-fulfillment is diffused ov
er a
certain sphere of association, within which it raises to expression
all
elements, including those that are in themselves impotent. In dreams
having several strong wishes we can readily separate from one anothe
r
the spheres of the individual wish-fulfillments; the gaps in the dre
am
likewise can often be explained as boundary zones.
Although the foregoing remarks have considerably limited the
significance of the day remnants for the dream, it will nevertheless
be
worth our while to give them some attention. For they must be a
necessary ingredient in the formation of the dream, inasmuch as
experience reveals the surprising fact that every dream shows in its
content a connection with some impression of a recent day, often of
the
most indifferent kind. So far we have failed to see any necessity fo
r
this addition to the dream mixture. This necessity appears only when
 we
follow closely the part played by the unconscious wish, and then see
k
information in the psychology of the neuroses. We thus learn that th
e
unconscious idea, as such, is altogether incapable of entering into
the
foreconscious, and that it can exert an influence there only by unit
ing
with a harmless idea already belonging to the foreconscious, to whic
h it
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