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To dream the dream, it is necessary to carry out psychic work and the hazards and failures of the dream function are due to the failure or insufficiency of this psychic work: this psychic work is a work of "primary" symbolization, i.e. of inscription within the "primary system". The dreamed dream is then eventually "told" and is then transferred into representations of words: a work of inscription and translation in the "secondary system", therefore of "secondary" symbolization, is thus required. There is thus a double model in Freud's work, a model in which the only psychic work during the daytime state is a work of "taming the impulse", and a nocturnal model, a model of dream activity that does not need a tamed impulse but which requires, on the other hand, a psychic work of transformation, of qualitative and symbolic transposition. In his survey of processes, Freud underlines some essential processes, "displacement, condensation, overdetermination, figurability (figurative representation), etc.". II. Aab. Symbol, Symbolic and Symbolization in Freud’s Terminology and in Language (Latin American Perspective) The word “symbolization” rarely appears in Freud's work, and it is always associated with concepts such as symbol (SYMBOL) and symbolism (SYMBOLIK). Furthermore, the term “symbolization” does not appear as such in the Language of Psychoanalysis of Freud’s terminology by Laplanche and Pontalis 1967/1973/2007), which only includes that of “symbolism” (Gr. “symbolik”). “Symbol” and “the symbolic” appear frequently in “The Interpretation of Dreams.” According to Freud, the symbol is inherited. Sometimes, the symbol and what is symbolized at an unconscious level could be the same, in other occasions, different symbols can have a single meaning (e.g., a banana, an obelisk, or a tie could symbolize a penis). The ensemble of symbols is what constitutes the symbolic. One of the few occasions on which Freud uses the word “symbolization” is in the following quote from the “Interpretation of Dreams”: In the case of symbolic dream interpretation, the key to the symbolization (der Schlüssel der Symbolisierung) is arbitrarily chosen by the interpreter, whereas in our cases of verbal disguise, the keys are generally known and laid down by firmly established linguistic usage. If one has the right idea at one's disposal at the right moment, one can solve dreams of this kind wholly or in part, even independently of information of the dreamer (Freud 1900, p. 341-342, Vol 5). Freud used his own psyche to decipher or interpret the patient's symbolizations in order to reach the unconscious. In this same text, he describes thoroughly the psychic mechanisms involved in dream work, which are shared with those implied in the symbolization process: condensation, displacement, and figurative representation (figurability). However, while symbols are used in
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