ABSTRACT
Time passage is part of the language of dreams, just as a snake, or vagueness, or rapidity of movement may express something in a dream. Freud explained that the mind is able to do that because the Preconscious has an enormous storehouse of memories that can be used in making a dream. The actual process in the dream work of calling up such a story is quite rapid. The storehouse of memory contains many memories of time passing slowly. Thus traumatic memories cannot be remembered directly because they are not in a state that permits remembering. They can come out only in the form of transferences to the Preconscious. The psychoanalytic process makes possible a reliving of missed phases of development. In a similar vein, one should not speak of unconscious emotions, because in Freud's early model emotions were part of the preconscious motor discharge reactions to the intrusions of drive-laden unconscious impulses.
