Chapter III: A Dream is the Fulfillment of a Wish
Freud states the core proposition directly, using examples like the dream of Irma's injection.
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From The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud (trans. A. A. Brill)
Freud's central thesis is that every dream is a disguised fulfillment of a repressed wish, and that dreams provide the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious mind.
Chapter VII, Section E
Contains the famous declaration that the interpretation of dreams is the via regia (royal road) to the unconscious.
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