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    "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams",
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    "learning": "Distinguish manifest content from latent thoughts, recognize mechanisms of dream-work, and keep every interpretation at the level of a hypothesis.",
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            "text": "»Weil er herrschsüchtig war, darum erschlug ich ihn.« Weil er nicht erwarten konnte, daß ihm der andere den Platz räume, darum ist er selbst hinweggeräumt worden. Diese Gedanken hege ich unmittelbar, nachdem ich in der Universität der Enthüllung des dem anderen gesetzten Denkmals beigewohnt habe. Ein Teil meiner im Traume verspürten Befriedigung deutet sich also: Gerechte Strafe; es ist dir recht geschehen.\n\nBei dem Leichenbegängnis dieses Freundes machte ein junger Mann die unpassend scheinende Bemerkung: Der Redner habe so gesprochen, als ob jetzt die Welt ohne den einen Menschen nicht mehr bestehen könne. Es regte sich in ihm die Auflehnung des wahrhaften Menschen, dem man den Schmerz durch Übertreibung stört. Aber an diese Rede knüpfen sich die Traumgedanken an: Es ist wirklich niemand unersetzlich; wie viele habe ich schon zu Grabe geleitet; ich aber lebe noch, ich habe sie alle überlebt, ich behaupte den Platz. Ein solcher Gedanke im Moment, da ich fürchte, meinen Freund nicht mehr unter den Lebenden anzutreffen, wenn ich zu ihm reise, läßt nur die weitere Entwicklung zu, daß ich mich freue, wieder jemanden zu überleben, daß nicht ich gestorben bin, sondern er , daß ich den Platz behaupte, wie damals in der phantasierten Kinderszene. Diese aus dem Infantilen kommende Befriedigung darüber, daß ich den Platz behaupte, deckt den Hauptanteil des in den Traum aufgenommenen Affekts. Ich freue mich darüber, daß ich überlebe, ich äußere das mit dem naiven Egoismus der Anekdote zwischen Ehegatten: »Wenn eines von uns stirbt, übersiedle ich nach Paris.« Es ist für meine Erwartung so selbstverständlich, daß nicht ich der eine bin.\n\nMan kann sich’s nicht verbergen, daß schwere Selbstüberwindung dazu gehört, seine Träume zu deuten und mitzuteilen. Man muß sich als den einzigen Bösewicht enthüllen unter all den Edlen, mit denen man das Leben teilt. Ich finde es also ganz begreiflich, daß die Revenants nur so lange bestehen, als man sie mag, und daß sie durch den Wunsch beseitigt werden können. Das ist also das, wofür mein Freund Josef gestraft worden ist. Die Revenants sind aber die aufeinanderfolgenden Inkarnationen meines Kindheitsfreundes, ich bin also auch befriedigt darüber, daß ich mir diese Person immer wieder ersetzt habe, und auch für den, den ich jetzt zu verlieren im Begriffe bin, wird sich der Ersatz schon finden. Es ist niemand unersetzlich.",
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            "text": "“Because he was domineering, I slew him.” Because he could not wait for the other man to yield his place to him, he himself has been removed. I entertain these thoughts immediately after attending the unveiling at the University of the monument erected to the other man. Thus one part of the satisfaction I felt in the dream may be interpreted as follows: just punishment; it served you right.\n\nAt this friend’s funeral, a young man made the seemingly inappropriate remark that the speaker had spoken as though the world could no longer continue to exist without this one man. There stirred within him the revolt of the truthful person whose grief is disturbed by exaggeration. But the dream-thoughts attach themselves to this remark: no one is really irreplaceable; how many people I have already accompanied to the grave; but I am still alive, I have survived them all, I hold my place. Such a thought, at the moment when I fear that if I travel to my friend I shall no longer find him among the living, permits only the further development that I rejoice at having once again survived someone, that it is not I who have died, but he, that I hold my place, as I did in the phantasied childhood scene. This satisfaction, arising from the infantile realm, that I hold my place covers the principal share of the affect taken up into the dream. I rejoice that I survive; I express this with the naive egoism of the anecdote between spouses: “If one of us dies, I shall move to Paris.” It is so self-evident to my expectation that I shall not be the one.\n\nIt cannot be concealed that severe self-mastery is required to interpret and communicate one’s dreams. One must reveal oneself as the sole villain among all the noble people with whom one shares one’s life. I therefore find it entirely understandable that revenants exist only as long as one likes them and can be disposed of by a wish. That, then, is what my friend Josef was punished for. But the revenants are the successive incarnations of my childhood friend, so I am also satisfied that I have repeatedly found a replacement for this person, and a replacement will surely be found even for the man whom I am now on the point of losing. No one is irreplaceable.",
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            "text": "« Parce qu’il voulait dominer, je l’ai tué. » Parce qu’il ne pouvait attendre que l’autre lui cède la place, il a lui-même été écarté. Je nourris ces pensées immédiatement après avoir assisté, à l’Université, au dévoilement du monument élevé à l’autre. Une partie de la satisfaction ressentie dans le rêve s’interprète donc ainsi: juste châtiment; c’est bien fait pour toi.\n\nLors des funérailles de cet ami, un jeune homme fit cette remarque apparemment déplacée: l’orateur avait parlé comme si, maintenant, le monde ne pouvait plus subsister sans cet unique homme. La révolte de l’homme sincère s’éveillait en lui, de celui dont on trouble la douleur par l’exagération. Mais les pensées du rêve se rattachent à ces paroles: personne n’est véritablement irremplaçable; combien en ai-je déjà conduits à la tombe; mais moi, je vis encore, je leur ai tous survécu, je reste maître de la place. Une telle pensée, au moment où je crains de ne plus trouver mon ami parmi les vivants lorsque je me rendrai auprès de lui, ne permet que le développement suivant: je me réjouis de survivre encore à quelqu’un, que ce ne soit pas moi qui sois mort, mais lui, que je reste maître de la place, comme jadis dans la scène infantile fantasmée. Cette satisfaction venue de l’infantile, satisfaction de rester maître de la place, couvre la part principale de l’affect accueilli dans le rêve. Je me réjouis de survivre, je l’exprime avec l’égoïsme naïf de l’anecdote entre époux: « Si l’un de nous meurt, je m’installe à Paris. » Il va tellement de soi, dans mon attente, que cet « un » ne sera pas moi.\n\nOn ne peut se dissimuler qu’il faut se faire grande violence pour interpréter et communiquer ses rêves. Il faut se révéler comme l’unique scélérat parmi tous les nobles êtres avec lesquels on partage la vie. Je trouve donc tout à fait compréhensible que les revenants ne subsistent qu’aussi longtemps qu’on les aime et qu’ils puissent être éliminés par le souhait. Voilà donc ce pour quoi mon ami Josef a été puni. Mais les revenants sont les incarnations successives de mon ami d’enfance; je suis donc également satisfait de m’être toujours procuré un substitut de cette personne, et un substitut se trouvera aussi pour celui que je suis maintenant sur le point de perdre. Personne n’est irremplaçable.",
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