| The process of dream interpretation thus reverses the direction of the dreamwork, moving from the level of the conscious recounting of the dream through the preconscious back beyond censorship into the unconscious itself. |
| The second activity of the dreamwork, displacement, refers to the decentring of dream thoughts, so that the most urgent wish is often obliquely or marginally represented on the manifest level. |
| The more I think about dreamwork, though, the more I recall the people with whom I have shared the dreams of my days and nights. |
| Using this information, the analyst could help the patient overcome inhibitions that were identified through dreamwork. |
| The Interpretation of Dreams provides a hermeneutic for the unmasking of the dream's disguise, or dreamwork, as Freud called it. |
| Yet they can be ultimately decoded by attending to four basic activities of the dreamwork and reversing their mystifying effect. |
