Philosophical concept

Dream-work

For Freud, dream-work transforms latent thoughts through condensation, displacement, and representation; interpretation remains an argued reconstruction, not a symbol dictionary.

Works
6
Passages
1,287
Thinkers
1
Traditions
1

Understand uses of the concept

For Freud, dream-work transforms latent thoughts through condensation, displacement, and representation; interpretation remains an argued reconstruction, not a symbol dictionary.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,287 passages across 6 works, including Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, The Interpretation of Dreams. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: traumarbeit, dream-work, dreamwork, travail du rêve

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Beyond the Pleasure PrincipleSigmund Freud · 60 passages
  2. Jokes and Their Relation to the UnconsciousSigmund Freud · 224 passages
  3. The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund Freud · 630 passages
  4. The Psychopathology of Everyday LifeSigmund Freud · 84 passages
  5. Three Essays on the Theory of SexualitySigmund Freud · 109 passages
  6. Totem and TabooSigmund Freud · 180 passages