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Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1946, Vol. XV, No. 4, p. 419.
The author introduces the term the Dream Screen which he defines as the surface on to which a dream appears to be projected. The manifest content of the dream takes place on it or before it. The dream screen represents the wish to sleep and also represents the breast. The intruding preconscious or unconscious wishes lose their place in the sleeper's ego by being projected on to or before the dream screen. The sleeper has identified himself with the breast, and becomes merged in its identification with the vastly enlarged and flattened breast, the dream screen.