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Reading Freud: Secondary Revision

This element of Freud's cocept of the "Dream Work," stood out to me because of how the conscious mind intrudes upon the dreaming mind. Freud was ambiguous about whether or not it was part of the "dream work," though. This might be because of the fact that it is so unlike the other 3 aspects of this concept (Condensation, Representational Resources, and Displacement being the other three). Secondary Revision functions as recoiling mechanism of sorts, in which the conscious mind actually exerts a limited form of control in order to retain some sort of control on the dreaming mind. This process actually reversed the paradigm that Freud established previously in which he said that dreams fulfilled wish fulfillment: the catch here being that this didn't have anything to do with the waking mind intruding on the dreaming mind, making this "dream work" element truly unique form the other three.

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