The Interpretation of Dreams the expression of the wish. In Freud's view, all dreams are forms of "wish fulfillment" (later in "Beyond the Pleasure Principle", Freud would discuss dreams which do not appear to be wish-fulfillment). Freud states: "My presumption that dreams can be interpreted at once puts me in opposition to the ruling theory of dreams and in fact to every theory of dreams..." Freud advanced the idea that an analyst can differentiate between the manifest content and latent content of a dream. The manifest content refers to the remembered narrative that plays out in the dream itself. The latent content refers to
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities play." The story has been available in print since the author's death in two posthumously published collections of Schwartz's work, "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories" (1978) and "Screeno: Stories and Poems" (2004). In a 2003 review of "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories" that appeared in "The Observer", Jason Cowley wrote, "[Schwartz] never wrote a finer story than 'Dreams'." The story tells of an unnamed young man who has a dream that he is in an old-fashioned movie theater in 1909. As he sits down to watch the film, he starts to realize that it is a