emphasised the point--"if the patient is in entire rapport with
the doctor.

"Now, the dream is not an absurd and senseless jumble, but a
perfect mechanism and has a definite meaning in penetrating the
mind. It is as though we had two streams of thought, one of which
we allow to flow freely, the other of which we are constantly
repressing, pushing back into the subconscious, or unconscious.
This matter of the evolution of our individual mental life is too
long a story to bore you with at such a critical moment.

"But the resistances, the psychic censors of our ideas, are always
active, except in sleep. Then the repressed material comes to the
surface. But the resistances never entirely lose their power, and
the dream shows the material distorted. Seldom does one recognise
his own repressed thoughts or unattained wishes. The dream really
is the guardian of sleep to satisfy the activity of the
unconscious and repressed mental processes that would otherwise
disturb sleep by keeping the censor busy. In the case of a
nightmare the watchman or censor is aroused, finds himself
overpowered, so to speak, and calls on consciousness for help.

"There are three kinds of dreams--those which represent an
unrepressed wish as fulfilled, those that represent the
realisation of a repressed wish in an entirely concealed form, and
those that represent the realisation of a repressed wish in a form
insufficiently or only partially concealed.

"Dreams are not of the future, but of the past, except as they
show striving for unfulfilled wishes. Whatever may be denied in