ABSTRACT
Dream-work-a is continuous night and day. It operates on the receipt of stimuli arising within and without the psyche. It operates on the mental counterpart of events of external reality. The difference usually lies in the fact that for different people the same words have, in addition to their common meaning, a different penumbra of associations. In addition to the effect which depends on the dominance of the pleasure-pain or of the reality principle, there is the effect produced by the degree to which the personality is characterized by an excessive tendency to splitting and projective identification. This discussion suggests that a dream exists and that it is characterized by visual images; further, that the dream-work and its production can be employed for two dissimilar purposes. The dream itself is then felt to be an act of evacuation in much the same way as the visual hallucination is felt to be a positive act of expulsion through the eyes.
