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The Interpretation of Dreams
Title page of the first edition of The Interpretation of Dreams.
Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams was one of the most important books of the 20th century.
First published in 1900, it provides a groundbreaking theory of dreams and an innovative method for interpreting them that captivates readers to this day.
The book represents Freud’s first major attempt to set out his theory of a dynamic unconscious, created in childhood, which operates continuously in every human mind.
For Freud, dreaming is a mental activity that follows its own logic. By identifying its mechanisms, Freud also shed new light on the workings of the unconscious and its powerful role in human life.
Freud called dream interpretation the ‘royal road’ to the unconscious.
It is the ‘King’s highway’ along which everyone can travel to discover the truth of unconscious processes for themselves.
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Sigmund Freud (1856 to 1939) was the founding father of psychoanalysis, a method for treating mental illness and a theory explaining human behavior.
Freud believed that events in our childhood have a great influence on our adult lives, shaping our personality.
For example, anxiety originating from traumatic experiences in a person’s past is hidden from consciousness and may cause problems during adulthood (neuroses).
Thus, when we explain our behavior to ourselves or others (conscious mental activity), we rarely give a true account of our motivation.
This is not because we are deliberately lying. While human beings are great deceivers of others; they are even more adept at self-deception.
Freud’s life work was dominated by his attempts to penetrate this often subtle and elaborate camouflage that obscures the hidden structure and processes of personality.
His lexicon has become embedded within the vocabulary of Western society.
Words he introduced through his theor
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BEFORE THE PUBLICATION OF THE FIRST GERMAN EDITION OF THIS BOOK (1900)
ACHMETIS, F. SERIM, Oneirocriticae, ed. Nik. Rigaltius, Paris, 1603.
ALBERTI, MICHAEL, Diss dem insomniorum influxi in sanitatem et morbos, Resp. Titius Halae M., 1744
ALIX, "Les Reves," Rev. Scientif., 3e serie, Vol. VI (32e de la coll.), 3e annee, 2e sem., Nov., 1883, pp. 554-561.
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ALMOLI, SALOMO, Pithron Chalomoth, Solkiew, 1848.
ARISTOTELES, Uber Traume und Traumdeutungen, trans. Bender (On Dreams).
- Von der Weissagung im Traume (On Prophecying bygd Dreams).
ARTEMIDOROS OF DALDIS, Symbolik der Traume, trans. Friedr. S. Krauss, Vienna, 1881.
- "Erotische Traume und ihre Symbolik," Anthropophyteia, Vol. IX, pp. 316-328.
ARTIGUES, Essai sur la valeur semeiologique du reve, These de Paris, 1884.
BACCI DOMENICO, Sui sogni e sul sonnombulis