Archaeologies of the Future

45 7 Freud and Day Dreaming:

We must therefore distinguish between two forms presented by the wish-fulfillment: a
reprellant purely personal or individual egoistic type, and a disguised version which has
somehow become universalized and made interesting, indeed often gropping and insistent,
for other people.

The writer softens the character of his egoistic daydreams by altering and disguising it, and
he bribes us by the purely formal that is, aesthetic yield of pleasure which he offers us in
the presentation of his phantasies. We give the name of an incentive bonus, or a fore-
pleasure to a yield of pleasure such as this, which is offered to us so as to make possible the
release of still greater pleasure arising from deeper psychichal sources (freud)