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The aim seems to be to reach the earliest [sexual] scenes.1 In a few cases this is achieved directly, but in others only by a detour via fantasies. For fantasies are psychic facades produced in order to bar access to these memories. Fantasies simultaneously serve the tendency toward refining the memories, toward sublimating them. They are manufactured by means of things that are heard, and utilized subsequently, and thus combine things experienced and heard, past events (from the history of parents and ancestors), and things that have been seen by oneself. They are related to things heard, as dreams are related to things seen. In dreams, to be sure, we hear nothing; but we see.