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Dreams coming true

'This dream occupies the whole second chapter of Freud's 1899 seminal, Interpretation of Dreams. He uses it as a clinical example to illustrate his method and theory of dream analysis.'

Dreams coming true
Sigmund Freud, Das Geheimnis des Traumes (Wien 1900) | Wikicommons/ Genderforschung. Some rights reserved.
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In a memorable scene of South Pacific, a 1958 film based on a post-war musical, Juanita Hall’s character, Bloody Mary, sings about dreams. We see her sitting between a young John Kerr’s Lieutenant Cable and France Nuyen’s exotic Liat. There is a love story in the background.

“You've got to have a dream”, Bloody Mary sings while Liat dances with her hands. “If you don't have a dream, How you gonna have a dream come true?”

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