{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 67/1918-03-21/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Literature offers no evidence of particular success in discovering elements in the human soul capable of showing what is actually going on in the soul when bringing about such transformations of the outer stimuli of dreams. But the question of paramount interest is this. What, in reality, is it in the soul that causes such different imagery to be connected with an outer stimulus, or also with a memory-picture emerging from the darkness of sleep? Here it must be said that what is actually working in the dream is not the faculty which in ordinary waking life enables man to link one mental picture to another. I could give you hundreds of examples which would prove what I can illustrate now only by one, for the sake of comparison. Think of the following. A woman dreams that she has to cook for her husband—sometimes an arduous duty for a housewife. She dreams that she has made one suggestion after another to him. To the first suggestion he answers: ‘I don't want that!’ To the second suggestion ‘I don't want that either!’ To the third suggestion: ‘Don't for heaven's sake inflict that upon me!’ And so it goes on. In the dream the woman is very miserable about all this and then an idea occurs to her. ‘There is a pickled grandmother on the floor; she is rather tough, but what about cooking her for you tomorrow?’ That too is a dream actually recorded in literature! Nobody who knows anything about the subject will doubt that the dream took such a form. You will at once say to yourselves : Anxiety is at the bottom of it. Something has happened to make the woman anxious. The mood of anxiety—which need not have anything whatever to do with the idea of the cooking and the rest—is transformed into a dream-picture of this kind. The picture is merely a clothing for the mood of anxiety. But during sleep the soul needs this picture in order to throw off the mood of anxiety. Just as you laughed about the pickled grandmother, so does the soul devise this grotesquely comic image as an adjunct to the other content of the dream, in order to overcome the anxiety and to induce an ironic, humorous mood. An oscillation, an alternation of moods can always be perceived in dreams and—like the pendulum of a clock—a swing between tension and relaxation, between anxiety and cheerfulness, and so on. What is of paramount importance in man's life of feeling is always the decisive factor in the structure assumed by the pictures of dream. From this point of view, therefore, the dream takes shape in order that certain tensions in the soul may be overcome. The picture which, as such, has no special significance, is born from this need to lead tension over to relaxation, relaxation over to tension. The soul conjures before itself something that can be an imaginative indication of the real gist of the matter.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. Manifestations of the Unconscious","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-03-21","location":null,"word_count":497,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/67/1918-03-21/p020","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"SOL2018","book_title":"The Eternal in the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA067/English/SOL2018/19180321p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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Ich könnte Ihnen Hunderte von Beispielen aufzählen, die Ihnen beweisen würden, was ich nur vergleichsweise durch ein Beispiel belegen kann. Nehmen Sie das folgende Beispiel; Eine Frau träumt, sie habe für ihren Mann zu kochen, manchmal eine schwierige Aufgabe für eine Hausfrau. Nun, sie träumt, sie habe ihm schon alles Mögliche vorgeschlagen. Erster Vorschlag: «Mag ich nicht!» Zweiter Vorschlag: «Mag ich auch nicht!» Dritter Vorschlag: «Mag ich erst recht nicht! Damit kannst du mir zu Hause bleiben!» Und so weiter. Die Frau ist darüber schon ganz unglücklich im Traume. Da fällt ihr ein: «Wir haben ja auf dem Boden eine gesalzene Großmutter; sie ist zwar etwas zäh, aber sollte ich sie dir nicht morgen kochen?» Auch ein Traum, den Sie in der Literatur finden können. Wer mit Träumen bekannt ist, wird nicht zweifeln, daß der Traum sich so abgespielt hat. Ich könnte dieses Beispiel durch hunderte gleichgeartete vermehren. Sie werden sich unmittelbar sagen müssen: Die Stimmung des Ängstlichen liegt zugrunde. Irgend etwas liegt vor, was der Frau eine ängstliche Stimmung gemacht hat. Diese Stimmung, die gar nichts zu tun zu haben braucht mit der Vorstellung des Kochens und dergleichen, setzt sich in eine solche Traumvorstellung um. Dies ist nur eine Umkleidung der ängstlichen Stimmung. Diese aber hat die Seele während des Schlafes nötig, um aus der Angst herauszukommen, sie sucht sich über die Angst hinwegzuhelfen, und gerade so, wie Sie über die gesalzene Großmutter gelacht haben, so erfindet die Seele diese zu dem übrigen Trauminhalt in grotesk-komischer Weise sich hinzugesellende Vorstellung, um innerlich die Angstlichkeit zu überwinden, um in eine ironisierende, humorvolle Stimmung zu kommen. Das ist es, was Sie in den Träumen immer verfolgen können: ein Oszillieren, ein Hin- und Herschwingen von Stimmungen und — wie die Uhr hin- und herpendelt — ein Hin- und Herpendeln zwischen Spannung und Entspannung, zwischen Ängstlichkeit und Lustigkeit und so weiter. Immer ist für die Gliederung der’ITraumvorstellungen maßgebend das, was im Gefühlsleben des Menschen das hervorragend Bedeutsame ist. Nach diesem Gesichtspunkt: Gewisse Spannungen in der Seele zu überwinden, wird der Traum gestaltet. Aus dieser Notwendigkeit, Spannung in Entspannung, Entspannung in Spannung überzuführen, wird erst dasjenige, was als Vorstellung gar nicht besonders bedeutsam ist, geboren. 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