ABSTRACT

Dream-Fantasies' is the term utilized by Freud when he described a certain type of dream which impresses us by being particularly well-constructed by its clarity and distinctness. He remarks that in some dreams the clarity or indistinctness of the dream has no connection with the make up of the dream itself, dream-work, but is due to the clarity or indistinctness of the latent dream thoughts themselves. For those reasons he thought of introducing a category of dreams which were not subject to the mechanism of condensation and displacement, to be described as fantasies during sleep. Freud attributes to the secondary revision the capacity to create new contributions to dreams, in trying to produce a more logical and coherent facade for the dream, but like the other factors in the dream work it prefers to select from psychical material already formed in the latent dream thoughts.