All this is done anti-realistically, with dream logic: disjuncture, displacement, ambiguity.
The volume has continued to grow as weeks later Tonya remains in her car, continuing to film the aptly named "Displacement for the Dream Diaries", (with a customized intro and all).
The second activity of the dreamwork, displacement, refers to the decentring of dream thoughts, so that the most urgent wish is often obliquely or marginally represented on the manifest level.
He drew upon Sophocles, Goethe's Faust and Shakespeare – especially Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth – to explicate his understanding of unconscious motivations and the complex metaphors and displacements of dreams.
Only later do we realize that Marlene's dream of empowerment is also a guilty fantasy of displacement.
"We decided the consistency in camera motion combined with the varying landscapes was a perfect way of representing the displacement of time and space that occurs in a dream.
Further displacement of emotional attitudes toward one object or person theoretically could be displaced in dreaming to another object or person or not appear in the dream at all.
Displacement also means the associative substitution of one signifier in the dream for another, say, the king for one's father.
Out of the many refugee and displacement situations I've photographed, I've never had a child say to me, "I can't dream at the moment".
For Freud, the multiplicity of satisfying explanations (over-determination) is characteristic of how dreams express content: namely, through displacements, substitutions and condensations, the logic of which can be revealed only by faithfully retracing the component words and images.
