ABSTRACT
Displacement in dreams refers to one of the mechanisms which form part of the dream-work. Dream-displacement and dream-condensation are the two governing factors to whose activity we may in essence ascribe the form assumed by dreams'. Freud points out that the allusions employed for displacement in dreams 'are connected with the element they replace by the most external and remote relations and are therefore unintelligible', because the 'dream-censorship only gains its end if it succeeds in making it impossible to find the path back from the allusion to the genuine thing'. The primary psychical process is brought to bear on these memories, till, by condensation of them and displacement between their respective cathexes, it has shaped the manifest dream-content. Propyl is as it were an intermediate idea between amyl and Propylaea, and found its way into the content of the dream as a kind of compromise, by means of simultaneous condensation and displacement.
