The way in which dreams treat the category of contraries and contradictories is highly remarkable. It is simply disregarded. 'No' seems not to exist so far as dreams are concerned. They show a particular preference for combining contraries into a unity or for representing them as one and the same thing. Dreams feel themselves at liberty, moreover, to represent any element by its wishful contrary; so there is no way of deciding at a first glance whether any element that admits of a contrary is present in the dream-thoughts as a positive or as a negative.
Chapter VI: The Dream-Work, C. The Means of Representation in The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900, Sigmund Freud, James Strachey translation
Chapter VI: The Dream-Work, C. The Means of Representation in The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900, Sigmund Freud, James Strachey translation
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