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    "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams",
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            "text": "Wir haben gehört ( p. 16 ), daß der Traum sehr selten Erinnerungen so reproduziert, daß sie unverkürzt und unverändert den alleinigen manifesten Trauminhalt bilden. Immerhin sind einige Beispiele für dieses Vorkommen sichergestellt, zu denen ich einige neue hinzufügen kann, die sich wiederum auf Infantilszenen beziehen. Bei einem meiner Patienten brachte einmal ein Traum eine kaum entstellte Wiedergabe eines sexuellen Vorfalles, die sofort als getreue Erinnerung erkannt wurde. Die Erinnerung daran war im Wachen zwar nie völlig verloren gewesen, aber doch stark verdunkelt worden, und ihre Neubelebung war ein Erfolg der vorausgegangenen analytischen Arbeit. Der Träumer hatte mit zwölf Jahren einen bettlägerigen Kollegen besucht, der sich wahrscheinlich nur zufällig bei einer Bewegung im Bette entblößte. Beim Anblick seiner Genitalien von einer Art Zwang ergriffen, entblößte er sich selbst und faßte das Glied des anderen, der ihn aber unwillig und verwundert ansah, worauf er verlegen wurde und abließ. Diese Szene wiederholte ein Traum 23 Jahre später auch mit allen Einzelheiten der in ihr vorkommenden Empfindungen, veränderte sie aber dahin, daß der Träumer anstatt der aktiven die passive Rolle übernahm, während die Person des Schulkollegen durch eine der Gegenwart angehörige ersetzt wurde.\n\nIn der Regel freilich ist die Infantilszene im manifesten Trauminhalt nur durch eine Anspielung vertreten und muß durch Deutung aus dem Traume entwickelt werden. Die Mitteilung solcher Beispiele kann nicht sehr beweiskräftig ausfallen, weil ja für diese Kindererlebnisse meistens jede andere Gewähr fehlt; sie werden, wenn sie in ein frühes Alter fallen, von der Erinnerung nicht mehr anerkannt. Das Recht, überhaupt aus Träumen auf solche Kindererlebnisse zu schließen, ergibt sich bei der psychoanalytischen Arbeit aus einer ganzen Reihe von Momenten, die in ihrem Zusammenwirken verläßlich genug erscheinen. Zum Zwecke der Traumdeutung aus ihrem Zusammenhange gerissen, werden solche Zurückführungen von Träumen auf Kindererlebnisse vielleicht wenig Eindruck machen, besonders da ich nicht einmal alles Material mitteile, auf welches sich die Deutung stützt. Indes will ich mich von der Mitteilung darum nicht abhalten lassen.",
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            "text": "We have heard (p. 16) that a dream very seldom reproduces memories in such a way that, unabridged and unaltered, they constitute the sole manifest content of the dream. Nevertheless, a few examples of this occurrence have been established with certainty, and I can add some new ones, which once again concern infantile scenes. In one of my patients, a dream once produced a scarcely distorted reproduction of a sexual incident, which was immediately recognized as a faithful memory. The memory of it had never been entirely lost in waking life, but it had been greatly obscured, and its revival was a result of the preceding analytic work. At the age of twelve, the dreamer had visited a bedridden schoolmate who probably exposed himself only by chance while moving in bed. At the sight of his genitals, seized by a kind of compulsion, he exposed himself and took hold of the other boy’s member; the boy, however, looked at him with displeasure and astonishment, whereupon he became embarrassed and let go. Twenty-three years later, a dream repeated this scene, including every detail of the feelings occurring in it, but altered it so that the dreamer assumed the passive instead of the active role, while the schoolmate was replaced by a person belonging to the present.\n\nAs a rule, of course, the infantile scene is represented in the manifest dream-content only by an allusion and must be developed from the dream through interpretation. The presentation of such examples cannot be very compelling as evidence, since these childhood experiences usually lack any other corroboration; if they occurred at an early age, they are no longer acknowledged by memory. In psychoanalytic work, the right to infer such childhood experiences from dreams derives from a whole series of factors that, in their combined operation, appear reliable enough. Torn from their context for the purpose of dream interpretation, such derivations of dreams from childhood experiences may perhaps make little impression, especially since I do not even communicate all the material upon which the interpretation rests. Nevertheless, I shall not allow this to deter me from presenting them.",
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            "text": "Nous avons entendu (p. 16) que le rêve reproduit très rarement des souvenirs de telle sorte que ceux-ci constituent, sans raccourcissement ni altération, l’unique contenu manifeste du rêve. Quelques exemples de ce phénomène sont néanmoins établis avec certitude, et je peux en ajouter de nouveaux, qui se rapportent à leur tour à des scènes infantiles. Chez l’un de mes patients, un rêve donna un jour une reproduction à peine déformée d’un incident sexuel qui fut aussitôt reconnu comme un souvenir fidèle. À l’état de veille, le souvenir n’en avait certes jamais été entièrement perdu, mais il s’était fortement obscurci, et sa reviviscence fut un résultat du travail analytique antérieur. À douze ans, le rêveur avait rendu visite à un camarade alité qui, probablement par pur hasard, se découvrit en bougeant dans son lit. À la vue de ses organes génitaux, saisi d’une sorte de contrainte, il se découvrit lui-même et saisit le membre de l’autre ; mais celui-ci le regarda avec mécontentement et étonnement, après quoi il fut embarrassé et cessa. Vingt-trois ans plus tard, un rêve répéta cette scène, avec tous les détails des sensations qui y étaient associées, mais la modifia en ce sens que le rêveur assumait le rôle passif au lieu du rôle actif, tandis que la personne du camarade d’école était remplacée par une personne appartenant au présent.\n\nEn règle générale, il est vrai, la scène infantile n’est représentée dans le contenu manifeste du rêve que par une allusion et doit être dégagée du rêve par l’interprétation. La communication de tels exemples ne saurait être très probante, car toute autre garantie fait le plus souvent défaut pour ces expériences infantiles ; lorsqu’elles remontent à un âge précoce, la mémoire ne les reconnaît plus. Le droit de conclure, à partir des rêves, à l’existence de telles expériences infantiles résulte, dans le travail psychanalytique, de toute une série de facteurs qui, par leur action conjointe, paraissent assez fiables. Mais, détachées de leur contexte aux fins de l’interprétation des rêves, de telles reconductions des rêves à des expériences infantiles feront peut-être peu d’impression, d’autant que je ne communique même pas tout le matériel sur lequel repose l’interprétation. Je ne veux pourtant pas renoncer pour cette raison à les communiquer.",
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