1. What is the difference between a dream's "manifest" and its "latent" content? How are the two related to one another?

2. How does Freud avoid the hermeneutic circle when addressing whether dream interpretation itself contributes meanings to dreams which are not functional in them?

3. Compare Freud's notion of the "intermediate common entity" to Saussure's system of signs. What is the entity's linguistic corollary in Saussure?

4. What is overdetermination? The "collective image" or "collective figure"? How do these participate in the dream work?

5. What are the basic functions of the dream work?

6. How does the dream work represent various logical relations among ideas?

7. What sort of ideas does displacement favour? How does this preference condition thought itself?

8. How does writing fit into Freud's thinking about dream symbolism? How do Freud's comments reveal his understanding of writing?

9. How do dreams allow Freud to distinguish the normal from the neurotic? What are the implications for language? How does his distinction situate Freud in the Platonic tradition?

10. What are the two classes of dreams? How can one tell the difference?

11. Compare Freud's use of maternal genitals to Plato's metaphysical plane.

12. How does Freud define "absurdity"?

13. How does the dream work disrupt the correspondence between idea and affect?

14. Is secondary revision inside or outside the dream?