CMLIT 153

Reading Questions

Freud. The Interpretation of Dreams

Chapter 1

1. What does Freud declare that his study of dreams will prove?

2. What distinction does Freud draw between sleep and dream?

3. According to Freud, how does Hildebrandt characterize the relationship between dream and waking life?

4. What is a hypermnesic dream?

5. What is one of the main sources from which dreams derive material, that is commonly lost to waking consciousness?

6. According to the research available to Freud in his day, do dreams typically revive important memories? What does the role of memory in dream demonstrate about human memory itself?

7. What are the four kinds of dream sources? What does Freud make of each of these? Does he seem to privilege one over an other?

8. What are some of the reasons for which we tend to forget our dreams?