ABSTRACT
In the study of dream psychology one encounters far-reaching philosophical and even religious problems to the understanding of which the phenomenon of dreams had already made decisive contributions. The dream concerns itself with both health and sickness, and by virtue of its source in the unconscious, it draws upon a wealth of subliminal perceptions, it can sometimes produce things that are very well worth knowing. It is a fragment of involuntary psychic activity, just conscious enough to be reproducible in the waking state. It is Freud's great achievement to have put dream-interpretation on the right track. In the treatment of neurosis, the task before us is to reestablish an approximate harmony between conscious and unconscious. Compensation is a psychological refinement. On the other hand, the term implies, means balancing and comparing different data or points of view so as to produce an adjustment or a rectification.
