he erection of a
facade.

Of the entire dreamwork Freud says ("Traumdeutung," p. 338)
comprehensively that it is "not merely more careless, more incorrect, more
easily forgotten or more fragmentary than waking thought; it is something
qualitatively quite different and therefore not in the least comparable
with it. It does not, in fact, think, reckon, or judge, but limits itself
to remodeling. It may be exhaustively described if we keep in view the
conditions which its productions have to satisfy. These productions, the
dream, will have first of all to avoid the censor, and for this purpose
the dream work resorts to displacement of psychic intensities even to the
point of changing all psychic values; thoughts must be exclusively or
predominantly given in the material of visual and auditory memory images,
and from this grows that demand for representability which it answers with
new displacements. Greater intensities must apparently be attained here,
than are at its disposal in dream thoughts at night, and this purpose is
served by the extreme condensation which affects the elements of the dream
thoughts. There is little regard for the logical relations of the thought
material; they find finally an indirect representation in formal
peculiarities of dreams. The affects of dream thoughts suffer slighter
changes than their image content. They are usually repressed. Where they
are retained they are detached from images and grouped according to their
similarity."

Briefly to express the nature of the dream, Stekel gives in one place
("Sprache des Traumes," p. 107) this concise characterization: "The dream
is a play of images in the service of the affects."

A nearly exact formula for the dream has been contributed by Freud and
Rank, "On the foundation and with the help of repressed infantile sexual
material, the dream regularly represents as fulfilled actual wishes and
usually also erotic wishes in disguised and symbolically veiled form."
(Jb.; ps. F., p. 519, and Trdtg., p. 117.) In this formula the wish
fulfillment, following Freud's view, is preponderant, yet it would appear
to me that it is given too exclusive a role in the (chiefly affective)
background of the dream. An important point is the infantile in the dream,
in which connection we must mention the Regression.

Regression is a kind of psychic retrogression that takes place in manifold
ways in the dream (and related psychic events). The dream reaches back
toward