| The Interpretation of Dreams provides a hermeneutic for the unmasking of the dream's disguise, or dreamwork, as Freud called it. |
| Freud suggested that the dreamer kept himself from waking and avoided unpleasant awareness of repressed wishes by disguising them as bizarre manifest content in an effort called dreamwork. |
| 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. |
| Yet they can be ultimately decoded by attending to four basic activities of the dreamwork and reversing their mystifying effect. |
| Using this information, the analyst could help the patient overcome inhibitions that were identified through dreamwork. |
| 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. |
