Le rȇve dans la psychanalyse (Dream in Psychoanalysis)

It has been acknowledged that what Freud calls dream processes participating in the formation of dreams is identical with what is known as metonymy and metaphor: here this relationship is demonstrated on the descriptions of the dreams in Freud’s work. Metaphorical or metonymical meaning of a dream is usually revealed through the context delivered by the subject of the dream through his associations. Method identical with that used in his interpretation of dreams also allowed Freud to analyze certain childhood memories, those capturing seemingly wholly unimportant details. Here an analysis could reveal that it is actually a case of facts that have played important role in the development of the child and that those facts are represented in memory through details associated with them by relations of contiguity and similarity.