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Freud (1900) believed that the dream was a hallucinatory fulfillment of a repressed infantile wish and that repression was the mainspring of the psychic apparatus, which then outwits and checkmates censorship so that fulfillment, even if distorted and masked, occurs. This belief has its roots in the Project of a Scientific Psychology (1895) and is the metaphoric basis, through a language which is only seemingly neurophysiological, of Freudian metapsychology. The metaphor used by Freud is hydrodynamic and will never be abandoned, despite the transformations Freudian metapsychology underwent after 1920, with the introduction of the dialectic interplay of life and death instincts.
With Klein (1932) the model of dream-interpretation underwent a radical change because the metapsychological conception of the mind was altered. The mainspring which makes our mind live in dream is no longer the repressed alone, but rather the dynamics between internal objects, objects which are stratified in the unconscious during early infancy by virtue of the primary processes of splitting as well as projective and introjective identification. Throughout life, these objects maintain among