In order to evaluate and make perfect the analytical apparatus, it would be very beneficial to link together what is at issue in analysis and what comes up in the dream. However the dream work here is not what Freud has defined as the censorship that comes forth between what is seen in the dream and the way it is narrated; it is the formation of the dream by the residues of the day, unconscious formations and childhood memories.

The issue in question here is the primary process which displaces the mnemic traces that are embedded in the unconscious, condense them to new perceptions, shape them, desexualize them and then name them. Such an activity can only be possible if the ego can suspend its own activity. What comes out of this is the reorganization of the psychic space, the rebalancing of the id, ego and superego, and the subsidence of the tension in accordance with the pleasure principle.