dreamwork (Traumarbeit) The process which, according to Freud, Sigmund, transforms dream-thoughts (latent content) into actual dreams (latent content) by distorting them in such a way that the implicit desires the dream-thoughts contain do not become apparent to the conscious. There are two separate functions in a dream---the first is to produce dream-thoughts, which are created from bodily stimuli, instinct, and what Freud called the dayâs residues (i.e. the many threads of psychic activity that are left unresolved at the end of the day); the second is the transformation of those dream-thoughts (many of which are unacceptable to the conscious), into dream images. This process, the dreamwork proper, consists of four different mechanisms: condensation (Verdichtung), displacement (Verschiebung), consideration of representability (RĂŒcksicht auf Darstellbarkeit), and secondary revision (sekundĂ€re Bearbeitung). Dreams are not creative, Freud maintains, they are transformative, and it is the transformations inherent in them that are crucial from the perspective of analysis. In other words, in analysing a dream Freud doesnât ask what a particular image stands for; rather, he wants to know why the thing it does stand for had to be represented in that way.