f thought, the focus is less on the individual subject and more on the interplay of individuals with the wider world. What those particular texts share is a fairly consistent application of key terms in respect of human impulses and actions. Dreams introduces a host of technical (scientific) terms that have the effect of structuring Freudian theory while also supplying the psychological discipline with discursive language. Accordingly, day residue (actual events that have been experienced by a dreamer but that may appear in distorted form in events or images of a dream), dream censorship or endopsychic censorship (the tendency of the dreamer's conscious mind to "defeat interpretations" within the course of the dream during the sleep state), and wish-fulfillment (the name given to the repressed infantile desire gratified in some form in the dream) originate with Freud (1978, pp. 44, 383; et passim).
Two basic ideas govern Freud's interpretation of human behavior and feeling. The first is the power of the unconscious (including but not limited to dream states) to affect conscious experience. The second is the fundamental position of sexuality in the unconscious to have an impact on conscious human behavior.
The situation of consciousness is a core aspect of Freud's behavior theory. In Dreams he repeatedly references the preconscious (Pcs), unconscious (Ucs), and conscious (Cs) mental processes. Ucs processes--highly complex and critical to the notion of psychoanalysis of neurotic personalities--are identified in general terms as the locus of "the impetus to dream formation" (Freud 1978, p. 397). Cs processes of the mind and body, if complex or disturbed, are fairly easy to recognize. Nevertheless, in Freud's formulation, consciousness, or behavior in the conscious state, is meant to be decoded so as to reach diagnostic and therapeutic meaning. The Pcs is the most provocative state of consciousness because it is the m...