ABSTRACT
The wakingwork would operate on the sensory-emotional language of dreams and transform them into verbal sentences. There are at least two possible points of view about the relation of dreams to the underlying language of thought: that dreams, like waking speech, are a transformation of the underlying language of thought; that dreams are the language of thought. The question of what is the underlying language of thought is one of the most difficult in psychology. Such language goes inward, becoming "inner speech," which bears the meaning of thought, without taking into consideration communicability to others. Language is a great gift and an essential part of what makes us human. The dream thought was conceived by Sigmund Freud to be like a verbal sentence. The dreamwork transformed this latent dream thought into the dream by all manner of distortion: condensation, displacement, symbolization, and pictorialization.
