Dream interpretation, according to Freud, reveals, above all, the mental contents repressed or excluded from consciousness by ego defense activities and unquestionably justifies its position within psychoanalysis, since the part of the id whose access to consciousness was prevented is exactly the which is involved in the origin of the neuroses. Freud's interest in dreams originated in the fact that they are normal processes, with which all are familiar, but exemplify processes that are active in
the formation of neurotic symptoms.
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