ABSTRACT
Until now I have been considering the psychology of the dream, quite apart from its relation to other products of mental activity. I propose in this chapter to deal—it can only be very briefly—with some of these relations. The dream, or perhaps more correctly, different varieties of the dream, occupy an intermediate position between certain forms of mental activity universally regarded as pathological, and others which are not only regarded as normal and healthy, but as products of the human mind, so valuable that they might be regarded as supernormal, rather than subnormal or abnormal. I propose now to consider the relation of the dream to certain pathological mental processes on the one hand, and to the products of artistic and religious activity on the other hand.
