Day leftovers

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According to Sigmund Freud, the remnants of the day are the memories that appear in every dream “ of the experiences of the last day ”.

Freud also describes them as recent and indifferent dream material. Freud explains that there is no doubt that they are the real troublemakers of sleep and not the dream, which rather tries to “ guard sleep ”. He compares the remains of the day with the entrepreneur who gives the inspiration for a dream, but the actual driving force comes from the unconscious wish , the capitalist of the dream. According to Freud's dream interpretation , day residues, together with early and unconscious wishes of a person, have a very specific function in the formation of a manifest dream content . They represent a crystallization point for the unconscious desires. They are activated by the remnants of the day and almost always remain unsatisfied in the given dream situation. Therefore, from a psychodynamic point of view , they usually develop a greater psychological intensity. Even in the wakeful state, the situation of the previous day, from which the dream originates, can be understood in analogy to early temptation and failure situations. Even if the leftovers of the day are actually just an insignificant frustration , this rather harmless impetus can reactivate more primitive patterns of early childhood wishes and disappointments. These are then transformed into the manifest dream content through secondary dream work .

Special position within the dream thoughts

Freud is of the opinion that the remnants of the day have a special and independent psychological function within the remaining dream thoughts or within the dream material . He took this view especially in his later writings. - Freud explains this meaning of the day's remnants on the basis of the overdetermination of the latent dream contents . He states that for the dreamer the latent dream thoughts should be both unconscious and " perfectly sensible and coherent ". You must therefore be " understood as understandable reactions to the dream occasion ". But they can also have the " value of any mental impulse or intellectual operation ". Remnants of the day are only part of the latent dream thoughts. In a stricter sense, Freud qualitatively separates the remnants of the day from the other latent dream thoughts. Remnants of the day are to be assumed as known, insofar as they represent recent material (in new memory ), regardless of whether the dreamer confesses to them or not. Remnants of the day or memory traces are used by the unconscious wishes as a Trojan horse , so to speak , in order to pass the threshold of censorship, which is lowered in sleep, and to get into the Vbw system and thus into the manifest dream . The most important criterion of dream thoughts, however, is what can be rediscovered, reconstructed and deciphered when interpreting the dream in the field of repressed infantile experiences, even if it is only attached to the remnants of the day, so to speak. Freud separates these different qualities of the dream material from one another in a sharp, ideal-typical way, even if, when comparing the images with the entrepreneur (daily remnants) and capitalists (unconscious desires), he admits that an entrepreneur can also be equipped with capital and a capitalist can be entrepreneurial.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peters, Uwe Henrik : Dictionary of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 3 1984; Wb.-Lemma: "Remains of the day": p. 557.
  2. ↑ a b Sigmund Freud : The Interpretation of Dreams . [1900] Collected Works, Volume II / III, S. Fischer, Frankfurt / M; P. 170; the following page references from: paperback edition of the Fischer library, Aug. 1966; (a) Regarding the “Remnants of the day”: pp. 145, 456 f., 459; (b) Regarding “Overdetermination”: pp. 145, 456 f., 459.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Karl Arnold et al. (Ed.): Lexicon of Psychology . Bechtermünz, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-86047-508-8 ; on Lex.-Lemma “Remnants of the day”: Col. 2269.
  4. ^ Sigmund Freud : Lectures for the introduction to psychoanalysis with three parts: Failure - Dream - General theory of neuroses, reprint of the original from 1920, Outlook Verlag GmbH, 2012, ISBN 3-86403-493-0 ; P. 254 f. on-line
  5. ↑ Sigmund Freud : Self-Presentation . Collected works, vol. 14, p. 33 ff. Fischer, Frankfurt transcript in the summer of 1924. - First published in: LR Grote (ed.), The Medicine of the Present in Self-Representations, Leipzig 1925d. Cape. IV. Technique of psychoanalysis online
  6. ^ Peter Kutter & Thomas Müller: Psychoanalysis . An introduction to the psychology of unconscious processes. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-608-94437-2 ; P. 102 online