{A Dream-Event connection: The Workman's Hammer [continued]}[1st December 1981]

[Redbook2:212-213][19811201:2145b]{A Dream-Event connection: The Workman's Hammer [continued]}[1st December 1981]

19811201.2145

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The first point is this: on the assumption that there is a connection, it seems that a part of the mind seizes on some kind of (perhaps) 'pure' knowledge arising and attempts to give it form and relevance, perhaps in order to make it comprehensible. Suppose that the 'pure knowledge' was simply the strong impression of the future event: the 'manual belligerence' of the boyfriend's [sic] tone of voice. This part of the mind deduces a dispute with a workman: it remembers the dispute with the workman over the hammer (remembering that the dream started with the workman's annoyance), and sets it in a local scene (which may or may not be connected with the fact that the ex-Secretary lives locally – in the other direction – and told me she often walks this way). The attempt to take the hammer from me describes the initial attempt to find out whether I had despatched the letter or not: if not, clearly the boyfriend [sic] would have wanted to get it from me, himself or by post. He was finally frustrated but still belligerent – as was the workman in the dream: in both cases I was left with an impression that the other considered the matter still open.

The question is, how to keep out these false forms and obtain only the original 'pure knowledge' arisen? Perhaps the suggestion alone will, given time, be enough.

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