392 Sigmund Freud
The History of Literature
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Freud's Chimney Sweeping
Freud says our mind possesses an unconscious state as well as a conscious one, full of desires that we tamp down and suppress. This interplay is sometimes revealed to us in, for example, a freudian slip where our true desire jumps out, accidentally revealing itself. Dreams are the greatest source of revelation, the yal road to the unconscious, he called it. But the wishes here are distorted as well. They don't appear in their natural state, necessarily, our mind, trying to protect us from our actual wish, or still unable to cope with it, turns it into something else. And as was seen in the case of anna o, sometimes this distortion harms us as
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