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Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin), 1880-1936

"The Dream Doctor"

Sigmund Freud, of Vienna?"
Dr. Ross nodded. "I dissent vigorously from some of Freud's
conclusions," he hastened.
"Let me state them first," resumed Craig. "Dreams, says Freud, are
very important. They give us the most reliable information
concerning the individual. But that is only possible"--Kennedy
emphasised the point--"if the patient is in entire rapport with
the doctor.
"Now, the dream is not an absurd and senseless jumble, but a
perfect mechanism and has a definite meaning in penetrating the
mind. It is as though we had two streams of thought, one of which
we allow to flow freely, the other of which we are constantly
repressing, pushing back into the subconscious, or unconscious.
This matter of the evolution of our individual mental life is too
long a story to bore you with at such a critical moment.
"But the resistances, the psychic censors of our ideas, are always
active, except in sleep. Then the repressed material comes to the
surface. But the resistances never entirely lose their power, and
the dream shows the material distorted.


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