ABSTRACT
Displacement in a dream is accomplished by putting an element in the foreground of interest in the manifest content which will be of least significance when the latent thoughts to the dream are evoked. The affect in the dream may likewise accompany the least important dream thought, while dream thoughts powerfully affective may be represented in the manifest content of the dream by elements of feeble affective tone. Dramatization in dreams is the reversion to concrete image thinking as in the illustrations given in poetic diction. The dreamer may ask himself take part in the drama; sometimes the experience is that of being an onlooker. Secondary elaboration is a mechanism which achieves a congruous and related story out of the multifarious latent thoughts. It differs from the other dream mechanisms in that it arises from more conscious levels of the mind.
