In his Interpretation of Dreams (1900) Freud argued
that because dream-thoughts were over-determined dreams might need
to be interpreted several times in order to be understood. Each act
of interpretation might produce a reading which was only partially
consistent with other interpretations, since the dream-thoughts
were themselves the products of condensation,
displacement
and over-determination.
Freud.s theory of dream interpretation thus comes close to the fact
of literary interpretation where it seems culturally and …
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Citation:
Editors, Litencyc. "Overinterpretation [Überdeutung]". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 October 2005 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=803, accessed 23 April 2024.]
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