ANTH224 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 2: Cathexis, Sigmund Freud, Dreamwork
15 Apr 2019
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The relationship between the systems unconscious-preconscious-conscious and the dreamwork: The fact of a psychical process being conscious or unconscious is only one of its attributes and not necessarily an unambiguous one. If a process of this kind has remained unconscious, its being kept away from consciousness may perhaps only be an indication of some vicissitude it has gone through, and not that vicissitude itself. An individual process belongs to begin with to the system of the unconscious and can then, in certain circumstances, pass over into the system of the conscious. After all, the watchman between the unconscious and the preconscious is nothing else than the censorship, to which, as we found, the form taken by the manifest dream is subject. On the other hand, it may be that these day"s residues have to thank an already existing connection with the repressed unconscious for some of their resistance to the withdrawal of libido commanded by the wish to sleep.
