ABSTRACT
The chapter offers a qualitative analysis of the types of bizarreness and dream-work operations that occur in the dream during the development of the dream function as the child grows older. It is highlighted that the first types of dream-work operations are present in primary and neutral forms of dream distortion (i.e., primary bizarreness, “neutral” distortion) before being at the service of the dream-censorship activity for defensive purposes (i.e., conflictual/defensive bizarreness).
