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The psychoanalytic theory of dream interpretation is distinguished from the psychoanalytic theory of dreaming. Lack of clarity about this differentiation results in a reification of latent dream content, an overgeneralization of the
interpretive principle of dream-distortion, and the misapplication of the wish-fulfilment hypothesis in dream interpretation. The author points out that dream interpretation does not usually express the repressed infantile wish even though the latter motivates the process of dreaming.