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directs itself in the case of children <strong>to</strong> the sex-life of the parents. It is an<br />

impulse of childhood, and in so far as it persists later, an impulse whose roots<br />

reach back in<strong>to</strong> the infantile. But that day's news played no part in awaking<br />

the curiosity, it awoke only annoyance and regret. This wish impulse did not<br />

have anything <strong>to</strong> do immediately with the latent dream thoughts, and we<br />

could fit the result of the dream interpretation in<strong>to</strong> the analysis without<br />

considering the wish impulse at all. But then, the annoyance itself was not<br />

capable of producing the dream; a dream could not be derived from the<br />

thought: "It was stupid <strong>to</strong> marry so soon," except by reviving the old wish<br />

finally <strong>to</strong> see what happens when one is married. The wish then formed the<br />

dream content, in that it replaced marriage by going <strong>to</strong> the theatre, and gave<br />

it the form of an earlier wish-fulfillment: "so now I may go <strong>to</strong> the theatre and<br />

see all the forbidden things, and you may not. I am married and you must<br />

wait." In such a manner the present situation was transposed in<strong>to</strong> its<br />

opposite, an old triumph put in<strong>to</strong> the place of the recent defeat. Added<br />

there<strong>to</strong> was a satisfied curiosity amalgamated with a satisfied egoistic sense<br />

of rivalry. This satisfaction determines the manifest dream content in which<br />

she really is sitting in the theatre, and her friend was unable <strong>to</strong> get tickets.<br />

Those bits of dream content are affixed <strong>to</strong> this satisfaction situation as<br />

unfitting and inexplicable modifications, behind which the latent dream<br />

thoughts still hide. Dream interpretation must take in<strong>to</strong> consideration<br />

everything that serves <strong>to</strong>ward the representation of the wish-fulfillment and<br />

must reconstruct from these suggestions the painful latent dream-thought.<br />

The observation I now wish <strong>to</strong> make is for the purpose of drawing your<br />

attention <strong>to</strong> the latent, dream thoughts, now pushed <strong>to</strong> the fore. I beg of you<br />

not <strong>to</strong> forget first, that the dreamer is unconscious of them, second, they are<br />

entirely logical and continuous, so that they may be unders<strong>to</strong>od as a<br />

comprehensible reaction <strong>to</strong> the dream occasion, third, that they may have the<br />

value of any desired psychic impulse or intellectual operation. I shall now<br />

designate these thoughts more forcibly than before as "day-remnants"; the<br />

dreamer may acknowledge them or not. I now separate day-remnants and<br />

latent dream thoughts in accordance with our previous usage of calling<br />

everything that we discover in interpreting the dream "latent dream<br />

thoughts," while the day-remnants are only a part of the latent dream<br />

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