Status Updates From L'interpretazione dei sogni

Some of it is coming together a little better. I confess I’m skimming only very slightly—the book-skimmer’s police, who bring charges against those who don’t really read books, have very little against me, not even a misdemeanor. Freud’s examples are often absurd but he’s on to something

Freud’s dream interpretations, especially when based upon punning and word games, seem far-fetched. I’m more impressed with what I can make out of his comments mapping out the mechanisms and automatisms of the unconscious than when he provides examples. Which would seem to invert science.

long flight

Moving through this. It’s “very interestink” (said in a German psychoanalyst’s accent). Some of Freud’s explanations are really reaching and too reliant upon far fetched wordplay. In other sections it’s very precise, impressively so since he’s talking about the murky inner recesses.

Os sonhos são halucinações completamente isoladas do mundo exterior que aceitamos com a melhor-fé. São imagens, ao invés de conceitos.

"Quem se comportasse na vigília tal como os seus sonhos o representam seria considerado louco".

Porém, Freud, começa a dar um buildup em como todo este conjunto de non-sense pode possuir um fio condutor e sentido, podendo ser explicado racionalmente se lermos as entrelinhas