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In a forthcoming compilation of the most significant and current psychoanalytic articles on dreams written since World War II, it was found that one of the most persistent trends has been away from searching for the dream's wishful meaning in the latent dream content, but more on making inferences about the patient's psychodynamics directly from the manifest content (Alston, in press). A recent article in this compilation, “The Manifest Dream in Psychoanalysis: A Clarification” (Pulver, 1987), speaking directly to this trend, found that a goodly number of analytic articles, in their clinical vignettes, seem to emphasize the interpreting of the dream and its understanding without the patient's associations. It has also been suggested that the interpretation of the dream-without-associations is influenced by the literary criticism