The Interpretation of Dreams the underlying meaning of the dream. During sleep, the unconscious condenses, displaces, and forms representations of the dream content, the latent content of which is often unrecognizable to the individual upon waking. Critics have argued that Freud's theory of dreams requires sexual interpretation. Freud, however, contested this criticism, noting that "the assertion that all dreams require a sexual interpretation, against which critics rage so incessantly, occurs nowhere in my "Interpretation of Dreams." It is not to be found in any of the numerous editions of this book and is in obvious contradiction to other views expressed in it." Freud acknowledged
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities end, the character wakes up from his dream and notes that it is the snowy morning of his twenty-first birthday. In Dreams Begin Responsibilities "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" is a short story by American poet and short story writer Delmore Schwartz. "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" is widely regarded as one of Schwartz's finest stories and is frequently anthologized. Of all of Schwartz's stories, it is probably his best-known and most influential. Schwartz's biographer, James Atlas, wrote a thorough account of the story's genesis: Schwartz wrote "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" over a July weekend in 1935, when he was only twenty-one.