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    "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams",
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            "text": "Der Traum eine verkleidete Erfüllung eines verdrängten Wunsches.\n\nIch hoffe, die vorstehenden Erwägungen und Beispiele werden genügen, um es – bis auf weiteren Einspruch – glaubwürdig erscheinen zu lassen, daß auch die Träume mit peinlichem Inhalt als Wunscherfüllungen aufzulösen sind. Es wird auch niemand eine Äußerung des Zufalles darin erblicken, daß man bei der Deutung dieser Träume jedesmal auf Themata gerät, von denen man nicht gern spricht oder an die man nicht gern denkt. Das peinliche Gefühl, welches solche Träume erwecken, ist wohl einfach identisch mit dem Widerwillen, der uns von der Behandlung oder Erwägung solcher Themata – meist mit Erfolg – abhalten möchte, und welcher von jedem von uns überwunden werden muß, wenn wir uns genötigt sehen, es doch in Angriff zu nehmen. Dieses im Traume also wiederkehrende Unlustgefühl schließt aber das Bestehen eines Wunsches nicht aus; es gibt bei jedem Menschen Wünsche, die er anderen nicht mitteilen möchte, und Wünsche, die er sich selbst nicht eingestehen will. Anderseits finden wir uns berechtigt, den Unlustcharakter all dieser Träume mit der Tatsache der Traumentstellung in Zusammenhang zu bringen und zu schließen, diese Träume seien gerade darum so entstellt und die Wunscherfüllung in ihnen bis zur Unkenntlichkeit verkleidet, weil ein Widerwillen, eine Verdrängungsabsicht gegen das Thema des Traumes oder gegen den aus ihm geschöpften Wunsch besteht. Die Traumentstellung erweist sich also tatsächlich als ein Akt der Zensur. Allem, was die Analyse der Unlustträume zu Tage gefördert hat, tragen wir aber Rechnung, wenn wir unsere Formel, die das Wesen des Traumes ausdrücken soll, in folgender Art verändern: Der Traum ist die (verkleidete) Erfüllung eines (unterdrückten, verdrängten) Wunsches (54) .",
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            "text": "The dream as a disguised fulfillment of a repressed wish.\n\nI hope the foregoing considerations and examples will suffice to make it credible, pending further objections, that even dreams with distressing content are to be resolved as wish fulfillments. Nor will anyone regard it as a matter of chance that, in interpreting these dreams, one invariably arrives at subjects of which one does not like to speak or about which one does not like to think. The distressing feeling aroused by such dreams is probably simply identical with the aversion that seeks, usually with success, to keep us from treating or considering such subjects, and that each of us must overcome when we find ourselves compelled to address them after all. Yet this feeling of unpleasure, which thus recurs in the dream, does not exclude the existence of a wish. In every person there are wishes that he would not like to communicate to others, and wishes that he does not wish to admit to himself. On the other hand, we are justified in connecting the unpleasurable character of all these dreams with the fact of dream-distortion and in concluding that these dreams are distorted to precisely such a degree, and that the wish fulfillment in them is disguised beyond recognition, because there is an aversion, an intention to repress, directed against the subject of the dream or against the wish derived from it. Dream-distortion thus proves in fact to be an act of censorship. We shall, however, take account of everything that the analysis of unpleasurable dreams has brought to light if we alter our formula intended to express the nature of the dream as follows: The dream is the (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed, repressed) wish (54).",
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            "text": "Le rêve, accomplissement déguisé d’un souhait refoulé.\n\nJ’espère que les considérations et les exemples précédents suffiront à rendre vraisemblable, jusqu’à nouvelle objection, que même les rêves au contenu pénible doivent être résolus comme des accomplissements de souhait. Personne ne verra non plus un effet du hasard dans le fait que, lors de l’interprétation de ces rêves, on tombe chaque fois sur des thèmes dont on n’aime pas parler ou auxquels on n’aime pas penser. Le sentiment pénible qu’éveillent de tels rêves est sans doute simplement identique à la répugnance qui voudrait nous détourner, le plus souvent avec succès, de traiter ou d’examiner de tels thèmes, et que chacun de nous doit surmonter lorsqu’il se voit contraint de les aborder malgré tout. Mais ce sentiment de déplaisir qui revient ainsi dans le rêve n’exclut pas l’existence d’un souhait ; il existe chez chaque homme des souhaits qu’il ne voudrait pas communiquer aux autres, et des souhaits qu’il ne veut pas s’avouer à lui-même. D’autre part, nous nous estimons fondés à mettre en rapport le caractère déplaisant de tous ces rêves avec le fait de la déformation onirique et à conclure que ces rêves sont précisément si déformés, et que l’accomplissement de souhait y est déguisé jusqu’à devenir méconnaissable, parce qu’il existe une répugnance, une intention de refoulement dirigée contre le thème du rêve ou contre le souhait qui en est tiré. La déformation onirique se révèle donc effectivement comme un acte de censure. Nous tenons toutefois compte de tout ce que l’analyse des rêves de déplaisir a mis au jour si nous modifions de la manière suivante notre formule destinée à exprimer l’essence du rêve : le rêve est l’accomplissement (déguisé) d’un souhait (réprimé, refoulé) (54).",
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