Statement 50

“The different portions [Stücke] of this complicated structure stand, of course, in the most manifold logical relations to one another. (...) When the whole mass of these dream-thoughts is brought under the pressure of the dream- work, and its elements [Stücke] are turned about, broken into fragments and jammed together [gedreht, zerbröckelt und zusammengeschoben] - almost like pack-ice - the question arises of what happens to the logical connections which have hitherto formed its framework”.”

Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, edited by Angela Richards, translated by James Strachey (London: Penguin, 1991), 422. [Derrida quotes this passage in 'Freud and the Scene of Writing' as an illustration of what he terms the 'machinery' of the dream-system (Writing and Difference , 273). ]