Well, throughout his fourth chapter, Freud insists that "distressing" dreams are wish-fulfillments, but their true meanings are disguised. After all, what about nightmares and other "anxiety dreams"? He anticipates the objections of readers who may not be willing to accept that all dreams are wish-fulfillments.
Here, he sets out to prove that the wish-fulfilling aspect of the Dream of Irma's Injection wasn't unique to that dream alone.įreud then turns to a discussion of distortion in dreams. In the third chapter of the book, he takes some time to give more examples of dreams that fulfilled their dreamers' wishes. Having made this somewhat surprising argument, Freud moves on to develop it in more detail. In fact, Freud doesn't stop there: he goes on to argue that every dream is " the fulfilment of a wish" (2.1.46). Freud's detailed interpretation of the dream is a hands-on demonstration of his unique methodology, and he concludes his analysis by arguing that his Dream of Irma's Injection fulfilled an unconscious wish. His goal in the first chapter of the book is to survey what's already been said about dreaming so that readers are well-prepared for his own thoughts on the subject.Īfter laying his critical groundwork, Freud jumps right into a "specimen dream"-his Dream of Irma's Injection. In standard scholarly style, Freud begins The Interpretation of Dreams by surveying all of the major scientific, philosophical, and pop cultural theories of dreaming that came before his own.
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