ABSTRACT
The subject of forgetting dreams, Freud built his dream theory into the psychology of the total personality and its functioning. With that approach he undercut the prevalent resistance of isolation-the attitude that dreaming is an isolated, esoteric phenomenon that is beyond the person's control. The importance of mental forces called resistances can hardly be overemphasized. In analysis the patient lies down and part of the patient's ego regresses while another part remains alertly awake, observing the regressive part. It was the unconscious infantile connections that produced both the intensity and the persistence of his wishes for greatness, and also the resistances against those wishes. With respect to both inner and outer perception, Freud concluded that Consciousness is partially, but never completely, asleep during the sleep state. A selective amount of wakefulness continues during sleep, both toward the outer world and toward dreaming. Unless the dream content is perceived it is not called a dream, but "dream work".
