Excerpt from The Technique of Dream Interpretation We ask the dreamer, what occurs to him in connection with the dream. If he is a novice, he will invariably reply: Nothing at all. What should occur to me? We then insist that the dream must suggest occurrences. If the resistance or the lack of understanding is considerable, the dreamer will still insist that nothing occurs to him. Now there are various aids, nevertheless, to get him to talk. We ask him of what actual experience the dream reminds him. About this most people have some idea. They regard the dream as the distorted reproduction of various experiences and are quite willing to offer these. Then one observes that the presentation of the dream has altered or falsified the experience, that strange elements have insinuated themselves - and thus come unawares into the anal ysis. Or one asks, what meaning for the life of the dreamer this or that person occurring in the dream has, and thus brings the dreamer to speech. As a rule he then speaks on and reveals his suppressed material. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.