ABSTRACT
The psychic prerequisite for falling asleep is for one to be able to detach from thoughts, give up thinking, and free the mind. If dreams are the royal road to the unconscious, songs are the paths to the same destination for the common people. Dreams, however, are still royal for the rich lode they yield. Songs are less full or complex in their output, usually more limited to a single, however powerful, vein of affect. Noise becomes sound, which becomes rhythm, which is transposed into music, which is added to by song. The two intermediate fantasy productions, dream and involuntary song, might merge into each other. In the symptom, or dream, or character trait, a wish, albeit one that causes discomfort too, is always part of it, a component of the under-structure of the emerging syndrome or dream or fantasy.
