Freudian dream interpretation

Schematic in three columns, left to right. The left column, latent content, lists five threads Freud found behind his dream of the botanical monograph: a monograph on cyclamens he had seen in a bookshop window that day; an unfinished talk the evening before with an eye-specialist colleague about fees and favors between doctors; self-reproach for rarely bringing his wife the flowers she liked; a paper on cocaine he had once written; and the charge that he indulged his hobbies and studied too narrowly. The threads pass a gate labeled censor into the middle column, the dream-work, with four boxes: condensation, displacement, representability and secondary revision. The condensation box shows all five threads merging into the monograph in the right column, and the displacement box marks the two core threads (fees and favors, hobbies). The right column is the manifest content: he had written a monograph on a certain plant, the book lay before him, he was turning a folded colored plate, and each copy held a dried specimen of the plant. An arrow along the bottom, from right to left, is labeled interpretation: free association, piece by piece.