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    "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams",
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            "text": "d) Typische Träume .\n\nWir sind im allgemeinen nicht im stande, den Traum eines anderen zu deuten, wenn derselbe uns nicht die hinter dem Trauminhalt stehenden unbewußten Gedanken ausliefern will, und dadurch wird die praktische Verwertbarkeit unserer Methode der Traumdeutung schwer beeinträchtigt. Nun gibt es aber, so recht im Gegensatz zu der sonstigen Freiheit des einzelnen, sich seine Traumwelt in individueller Besonderheit auszustatten und dadurch dem Verständnis der anderen unzugänglich zu machen, eine gewisse Anzahl von Träumen, die fast jedermann in derselben Weise geträumt hat, von denen wir anzunehmen gewohnt sind, daß sie auch bei jedermann dieselbe Bedeutung haben. Ein besonderes Interesse wendet sich diesen typischen Träumen auch darum zu, weil sie vermutlich bei allen Menschen aus den gleichen Quellen stammen, also besonders gut geeignet scheinen, uns über die Quellen der Träume Aufschluß zu geben.\n\nWir werden also mit ganz besonderen Erwartungen darangehen, unsere Technik der Traumdeutung an diesen typischen Träumen zu versuchen und uns nur sehr ungern eingestehen, daß unsere Kunst sich gerade an diesem Material nicht recht bewährt. Bei der Deutung der typischen Träume versagen in der Regel die Einfälle des Träumers, die uns sonst zum Verständnis des Traumes geleitet haben, oder sie werden unklar und unzureichend, so daß wir unsere Aufgabe mit ihrer Hilfe nicht lösen können.\n\nWoher dies rührt, und wie wir diesem Mangel unserer Technik abhelfen, wird sich an einer späteren Stelle unserer Arbeit ergeben. Dann wird dem Leser auch verständlich werden, warum ich hier nur einige aus der Gruppe der typischen Träume behandeln kann und die Erörterung der anderen auf jenen späteren Zusammenhang verschiebe.",
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            "text": "d) Typical Dreams.\n\nIn general, we are unable to interpret another person’s dream if that person is unwilling to surrender to us the unconscious thoughts lying behind the dream-content, and this severely impairs the practical applicability of our method of dream interpretation. Yet, in marked contrast to the freedom otherwise enjoyed by the individual to furnish the world of his dreams with his own individual peculiarities and thereby make it inaccessible to the understanding of others, there is a certain number of dreams that almost everyone has dreamed in the same way and that we are accustomed to assume have the same meaning for everyone. A special interest attaches to these typical dreams also because they presumably arise from the same sources in all people and thus seem particularly well suited to provide us with information about the sources of dreams.\n\nWe shall therefore approach the attempt to apply our technique of dream interpretation to these typical dreams with very special expectations, and we shall be most reluctant to admit that our art proves inadequate precisely with this material. In interpreting typical dreams, the dreamer’s associations, which otherwise have guided us toward an understanding of the dream, generally fail, or else they become obscure and insufficient, so that we cannot solve our task with their help.\n\nWhy this is so and how we can remedy this deficiency in our technique will become apparent at a later point in our work. The reader will then also understand why I can treat only a few dreams from the group of typical dreams here and postpone discussion of the others until that later context.",
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            "text": "d) Rêves typiques.\n\nNous ne sommes généralement pas en mesure d’interpréter le rêve d’autrui si celui-ci ne veut pas nous livrer les pensées inconscientes qui se tiennent derrière le contenu du rêve, ce qui compromet gravement l’utilité pratique de notre méthode d’interprétation des rêves. Mais il existe, en contraste marqué avec la liberté dont chacun dispose par ailleurs pour façonner son monde onirique selon sa particularité individuelle et le rendre ainsi inaccessible à la compréhension des autres, un certain nombre de rêves que presque tout le monde a faits de la même manière et auxquels nous avons coutume de supposer qu’ils ont aussi la même signification pour chacun. Ces rêves typiques suscitent en outre un intérêt particulier parce qu’ils proviennent vraisemblablement des mêmes sources chez tous les êtres humains et semblent donc particulièrement propres à nous renseigner sur les sources des rêves.\n\nNous allons donc entreprendre avec des attentes toutes particulières d’éprouver notre technique d’interprétation sur ces rêves typiques, et nous n’avouerons qu’à grand regret que notre art ne fait précisément pas ses preuves avec ce matériel. Dans l’interprétation des rêves typiques, les idées incidentes du rêveur, qui nous ont ordinairement guidés vers la compréhension du rêve, font généralement défaut, ou bien elles deviennent obscures et insuffisantes, de sorte que leur aide ne nous permet pas de résoudre notre tâche.\n\nLa cause de ce phénomène et la manière dont nous pouvons remédier à cette insuffisance de notre technique apparaîtront dans une partie ultérieure de notre travail. Le lecteur comprendra alors également pourquoi je ne peux traiter ici que quelques rêves du groupe des rêves typiques et reporte l’examen des autres à ce contexte ultérieur.",
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