The words dream interpretation were and still are indeed fraught withunpleasant unscientific associations. They remind one of all sorts ofchildish superstitious... » 

The words dream interpretation were and still are indeed fraught withunpleasant unscientific associations. They remind one of all sorts ofchildish superstitious notions which make up the thread and woof of dreambooks read by none but the ignorant and the primitive. Besides those who sneerat dream study because they have never looked into the subject there arethose who do not dare to face the facts revealed by dream study. Dreams tell usmany an unpleasant biological truth about ourselves and only very free mindscan thrive on such a diet. Selfdeception is a plant which withers fast in thepellucid atmosphere of dream investigation. Freuds theories are anything buttheoretical. He was moved by the fact that there always seemed to be a closeconnection between his patients dreams and their mental abnormalities tocollect thousands of dreams and to compare them with the case histories in hispossession. «