A profounder analysis enables me to detect the hidden impulse, which
would be able to find satisfaction in the dreaded mishap to my son. It
is the envy of youth which the elderly man believes that he has
thoroughly stifled in actual life.
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This sentence vividly embodies Freud's core idea in The Interpretation of Dreams: dreams are the fulfillment of repressed desires. It reveals that the elderly man’s unconscious envy of youth, which he suppresses in waking life, is subtly expressed through the hidden impulse of "finding satisfaction in his son’s mishap" in the dream.

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