Dream psychology by Maurice Nicoll

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There is also a kind of theme, based on contrasts, running through it. This is indicated at the opening by the fusion of the hotel with the cathedral. It is again suggested by the fact that the priest carries a dinner-bell. The hotel and the dinner-bell form natural associations, on one side, while the cathedral and the priest are related on the other side. The Latin inscription is associated by the dreamer with a certain failure to rise to an occasion in the past, a cartoon a passage in sufficiently poetical is afterwards replaced by three shining stars, a symbolism that need not failure to translate language.

I have used the term syTnbolism in describing this language. In this connection a symbol can be defined as latent meaning. Its meaning is latent only in relationship to the appeals immediately to general intelligence. It is understood apart from the intellect. When the intellect is brought to bear on it, intellect, it because it requires to be unpicked and spread out. It is thus condensed as well as latent meaning. The language of unconscious gesture is a language But though conof condensed and latent meaning.

But when the symbolism dreams is studied, a great difference from the of symbolism of cartoons is encountered. The diEEerence makes the interpretation of the dream a very much more difficult task than the interpretation of the cartoon. For the sources of the dream lie very much deeper, and its symbolism is not always drawn from the passing fashion of the age, but from the foundations of the human mind. Thus, in the dream, symbolisms are sometimes found that link up with what is most archaic in human history.

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