February 10, 1976. SOME REMARKS ON THE ANALYSIS OF DREAMS AND OF NEUROTIC SYMPTOMS. Charles Brenner, M.D.

After reviewing Freud's hypotheses concerning the formation of dreams as explicated in Chapter VII of The Interpretation of Dreams, Dr. Brenner offered a revision of the theory, previously described in his book, written with Dr. Jacob Arlow, Psychoanalytic Concepts and the Structural Theory. Instead of ascribing the dream's psychological properties to its being formed in the unconscious according to the rules of primary process and secondarily revised and censored by secondary process elaboration in the preconscious, he proposed that the dream be considered a compromise formation, similar to any waking thought, demonstrating the combined compromise among id, ego, and superego influences. Thus,