dreamwork

American  

[dreem-wurk] / ˈdrimˌwɜrk /

Or dream work

noun

Psychoanalysis.

1. the processes that cause the transformation of unconscious thoughts into the content of dreams, as displacement, distortion, condensation, and symbolism.

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Etymology

Origin of dreamwork

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

Villarreal: I want to talk more about your process for a moment, because I read that you used dreamwork as an acting technique.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2022

One would like to be able say — to spell out the actual content of his dreamwork.

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2021

Playwrights do the dreamwork for us, but our absorption is required.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2021

It begins to seem a sort of dreamwork of American power.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have been above all anxious to awaken an interest in the problems to which the further analysis of the dreamwork leads and to indicate the other themes which meet these on the way.

From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund