The Interpretation of Dreams

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The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud , translated by Abraham Arden Brill

Information about this edition The Interpretation of Dreams is a book by Sigmund Freud, the first edition of which was first published in German in November 1899 as Die Traumdeutung (though post-dated as 1900 by the publisher). The publication inaugurated the theory of Freudian dream analysis, an activity Freud famously described as "the royal road to the understanding of unconscious mental processes". The book introduces the Ego, and describes Freud's theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation.— Excerpted from The Interpretation of Dreams on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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[edit] Contents

• Preface
• Chapter I: The Scientific Literature of Dream-Problems (up to 1900)
  • Section A: The Relation of the Dream to the Waking State
  • Section B: The Material of Dreams — Memory in Dreams
  • Section C: Dream-Stimuli and Sources
  • Section D: Why Dreams Are Forgotten After Waking
  • Section E: The Psychological Peculiarities of Dreams
  • Section F: The Ethical Sense in Dreams
  • Section G: Dream-Theories and the Function of the Dream
  • Section H: The Relation between Dreams and Mental Diseases
• Chapter II: The Method of Dream Interpretation
• Chapter III: The Dream as a Wish-Fulfilment
• Chapter IV: Distortion in Dreams
• Chapter V: The Material and Sources of Dreams
  • Section A: Recent and Indifferent Materials in Dreams
  • Section B: Infantile Material as a Source of Dreams
  • Section C: The Somatic Sources of Dreams
  • Section D: Typical Dreams
• Chapter VI: The Dream-Work
  • Section A: Condensation
  • Section B: The Work of Displacement
  • Section C: The Means of Representation in Dreams
  • Section D: Regard for Representability
  • Section E: Representation in Dreams by Symbols: Some Further Typical Dreams
  • Section F: Examples — Arithmetic and Speech in Dreams
  • Section G: Absurd Dreams — Intellectual Performances in Dreams
  • Section H: The Affects in Dreams
  • Section I: The Secondary Elaboration
• Chapter VII: The Psychology of the Dream-Processes
  • Section A: The Forgetting of Dreams
  • Section B: Regression
  • Section C: The Wish-Fulfilment
  • Section D: Waking Caused by Dreams — The Function of Dreams — The Anxiety Dream
  • Section E: The Primary and Secondary Processes: Repression
  • Section F: The Unconscious and Consciousness: Reality

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