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The Real Project of Psychoanalysis Is a Formalist Project

Frik freud's whole analysis of dreams is not about the contennt, he says. The point is that it's the formal distortion that the dream creates. Is where t is, where the signification occurs in a dream. "The real project of psychoanalysis is a formalist project," Freud writes.

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