Response by Luis J. Martín Cabré (Madrid Psychoanalytical Association)

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Notes

1. Translated by Philip Slotkin MA Cantab. MITI

2. “There is one special class of experiences [&] for which no memory can as a rule be recovered. These are experiences which occurred in very early childhood [&]. One gains a knowledge of them through dreams” (Freud, 1914, p. 149).

3. “This would seem to be the place, then, at which to admit for the first time an exception to the proposition that dreams are fulfilments of wishes. [...] it is impossible to classify as wish‐fulfilments [my emphasis, LJMC] the dreams [...] which occur in traumatic neuroses, or the dreams during psycho‐analyses which bring to memory the psychical traumas of childhood. [...] Thus it would seem that the function of dreams, which consists in setting aside any motives that might interrupt sleep, by fulfilling the wishes of the disturbing impulses, is not their original function” (Freud, 1920, p. 32 f.).