Freud's terminology embeds definition in the words of the terms themselves. Thus day residue (actual events that have been experienced by the 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, as we have seen, that is given to the repressed infantile gratified in some form in the dream) originate with Freud (247; 480; et passim).
Freud routinely and repeatedly makes reference to three states of being throughout The Interpretation of Dreams: preconscious (Pcs), unconscious (Ucs), and conscious (Cs). In the unconscious processes of the mind--highly complex and critical to the notion of psychoanalysis of neurotic personali ties--is identified in general terms as the locus of "the mechanism of dream formation" (Freud 346). Conscious processes of the mind and body, while they may be complex or disturbed, are fairly easy to recog
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