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Quotation from Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
“Now in the traumatic neuroses the dream life has this peculiarity: it continually takes the patient back to the situation of his disaster, from which he awakens in renewed terror”
Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Ch. II, trans. C. J. M. Hubback (1922)
Freud names the recurring nightmare of the shock patient as the fact that his wish-fulfilment theory of dreams cannot explain.
Citation: "Now in the traumatic neuroses the dream life has this peculiarity: it continually takes the patient back to the situation of his disaster, from which he awakens in renewed terror" — Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Ch. II, trans. C. J. M. Hubback (1922). (id freud-beyond-the-pleasure-principle-q1)
