In essence, I have attempted to demonstrate in this paper how Freud has defended and argued for the crucial proposition that the mental processes comprise an integrated and coherent whole, despite the phenotypic disparity and arbitrariness in the observed behaviors. The discussion of the primary process emphasized its inability to delay gratification while searching for more efficient means of discharge. It is true that the dream (a significant example of primary process at work) releases tensions created in earlier

times. The point was made, however, that there was no element of deliberate selection involved in the dream. Rather, the direct discharge which so marks the primary process takes place when the stronger repressive influences that operate during the day "let down" at night.