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[Current psychoanalytic observations on dreams].

C Demoulin
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What is a dream from a psychoanalytical point of view? Freud first contemplates the fulfillment of the wish (1900), then the compulsion to repeat (1920) and finally the benefit of pleasure (1925). Following J. Lacan, a function of coding can be brought out: the dream substitutes the picture translated enjoyment of the sign from traumatic reality. Thus, the dream dreamt is not a message but a means of enjoyment of the unconscious.

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