Concept
Censorship
The function that, in Freud's topographical model, bars unconscious wishes and their derivatives from passing into the preconscious and consciousness unless they are disguised. In Die Traumdeutung (1900) the censorship explains the distortion of dreams: like a writer evading a political censor, the dream-work disguises the latent thoughts so that they can pass. Freud also placed a second censorship between preconscious and conscious, and later assigned the function to the ego and the super-ego.
Development
1900
introduced by Sigmund Freud
To explain why dreams are distorted, Freud posits in Die Traumdeutung two psychical forces, one forming the wish and the other exercising a censorship over it, and compares the dream to a political writer who must disguise what he says to get past the censor.
In The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)
Relations
- 1900 introduced by Sigmund Freud
To explain why dreams are distorted, Freud posits in Die Traumdeutung two psychical forces, one forming the wish and the other exercising a censorship over it, and compares the dream to a political writer who must disguise what he says to get past the censor.
Works
- 1900
Freud's book on dreams, issued by Deuticke in November 1899 with the imprint date 1900, argues that a dream is the disguised fulfilment of a repressed wish. It sets out a method of interpreting dreams through the dreamer's associations and distinguishes the manifest content of a dream from the latent dream-thoughts. The dream-work turns the latter into the former through condensation, displacement, considerations of representability and secondary revision. The seventh chapter proposes a model of the psychical apparatus made up of the systems unconscious, preconscious and conscious, with a censorship between them and two modes of functioning, the primary and the secondary process. The book is also the first printed statement of the theme Freud later named the Oedipus complex. Freud enlarged it in many later editions.
See also
People
References
- The Interpretation of Dreams1900Evidence for a relation