Freuds Framework Of Dreams

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unconscious wishes, anxieties and impulses from infiltrating consciousness, or only permitting them to appear in the manifest dream in a distorted form. It follows from this that these latent wishes are unacceptable to consciousness, since they would challenge the individuals consciously-avowed sensibilities (customary, moral or otherwise) to the point that they would threaten the very purpose of the dream, namely the preservation of sleep. In other words, the dream-work acts as a censor, a gatekeeper entrusted with the job of making the dream-thoughts palatable as they pass through the limbo between the conscious and unconscious realms. The dream-work is responsible for the difference between latent and manifest dream content.
The constantly active dream-work mechanism paints a new picture every time and individual dreams distorts the dream-thought, or wishes. One of the "tools" or devices available to the dream-work is displacement, where the most important elements of the latent ...

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