The Hundred Videos 47. Dream Work

Copyright artist(s) and courtesy argos

Artist(s)

Year

1997

Duration

00:02:29

Original format

Betacam SP

Color

col.

Color system

NTSC

Languages

Spoken: English US

Availability

Distribution
Collection

We have been encouraged to analyse our sexless dreams as being latently sexual, full of repressed writhing bodies and blood-gorged organs. This project, this analysis is referred to as dream work. It assumes latent though is transformed by the processes of condensation and displacement into the manifest content of the dream. Perharps you’ve heard that sexually explicit dreams are rare, all the X-rated bits condensed and displaced into their coded manifest form. But my dreams are so full of graphic sexual acts, I’ve had trouble tracing back to the kernel of latent thought which should be hidden within. The latent and manifest have seemingly been transposed