Verbal language in dreams "dream work" proper. The dream-like features which one experiences in dreams, such as condensations, displacements (symbolism), and reversals, are the manifestations of the primary-process input to the dream generation process. Yet the dreams of Freud's own and those of his patients, which he provides in "The Interpretation of Dreams" and elsewhere, typically abound in verbal dialogue, which is always syntactically well-formed, often complex (containing subordinate clauses) and usually, though not always, semantically well-formed and appropriate to the context of the dream. As an example, Heynick cites, among others, the "dream of Irma's injection, which Freud himself considered to be of
The Road of Dreams The Road of Dreams The Road of Dreams is a book of poetry by crime writer Agatha Christie. It was published at her own expense by "Geoffrey Bles" in January 1925 priced at five shillings (5/-). Only one edition of the 112-page volume was ever published and this was undated. Christie wrote poetry for most of her life; her first traceable published works are three poems from 1919: "World Hymn" in "The Poetry Review" issue for March/April, "Dark Sheila" in "Poetry Today" issue for May/June and "A Passing" in the same journal for November/December. All three poems are reprinted in