"Dreams are wish fulfillment fantasies; neurotic symptoms are substitutes for forbidden pleasures, but as compromises they never satisfy. Art, on the other hand, not being a compromise with the unconscious either in the cognitive or in the libidinal sense, affords positive satisfaction, and cannot be simply classed, as in Freud's later formulations, with dreams and neurosis as a "substitute gratification." This I take to be the meaning of the contrast between dream and wit stated in Wit and the Unconscious: that one [dreams/neurosis] guards against pain, while the other [wit/art] seeks pleasure." -Norman O. Brown, 1959