ABSTRACT
Secondary revision refers to that mental mechanism which fulfils the task of apperceptively structuring and editing both internal and external perceptual phenomena. This secondary revision is an automatic process serving the establishment of logical relationships, links and comprehensibility between disconnected or only loosely linked memories, ideas, perceptions. Dreams which have undergone a revision of this kind at the hands of a psychical activity completely analogous to waking thought may be described as 'well-constructed'. Freud also made it quite clear that although on the one hand secondary revision serves considerations of intelligibility on a conscious level, it is, as far as dreams are concerned, at the same time in the service of the distortion of the true, unconscious meaning and significance of a dream. He states parenthetically in his article on 'An Evidential Dream': 'Secondary revision by the conscious agency is here reckoned as part of the dream-work.
