Again, the analysis is ingenious and creative. But such a creation as a Freudian dream analysis, though a brilliant work of art, is hardly science. The reasons given are rhetorically persuasive, but not logically "proven" in any rigorous sense of the word.
"I am prepared to find this explanation attacked as either arbitrary or artificial." And he does not really answer his anticipated criticism so much as he deflects it, explaining how if very well might work. Then as usual, Freud goes on as if the foundation he describes a possible, is in fact now built and in place. "We may therefore expect that dream analysis will constantly show us..."
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