Freud'? At the moment I see little prospect of it.' - Freud in a letter to Wilhelm Fliess, June 12, 1900 'Do you suppose that some day a marble tablet will be placed on the house, inscribed with these words: 'In this house on 24 July 1895, the secret of dreams was revealed to Dr. In a 1900 letter to Wilhelm Fliess, he wrote in commemoration of the place: The original text is widely regarded as one of Freud's most significant works.įreud spent the summer of 1895 at Schloss BelleVue near Grinzing in Austria, where he began the inception of The Interpretation of Dreams. īecause of the book's length and complexity, Freud also wrote an abridged version called On Dreams.

The Interpretation of Dreams later gained in popularity, and seven more editions were published in Freud's lifetime.

Freud said of this work, 'Insight such as this falls to one's lot but once in a lifetime.' ĭated 1900, the book was first published in an edition of 600 copies, which did not sell out for eight years. Freud revised the book at least eight times and, in the third edition, added an extensive section which treated dream symbolism very literally, following the influence of Wilhelm Stekel.

Offering a fund of essential knowledge, and spell-binding stories it satisfies every facet of human interest: scientific, philosophical, sociological, romantic, dramatic and mysterious.The Interpretation of Dreams ( German: Die Traumdeutung) is an 1899 book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in which the author introduces his theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation, and discusses what would later become the theory of the Oedipus complex. Brill’s 1913 translation of the third edition, with a new introduction by expert Dr Richard Stevens, who discusses the context, reception, influence, importance and merits or otherwise of Freud’s text and Brill’s translation – truly one of the most influential, if controversial, Great Works that Shape Our World.įLAME TREE's Great Works That Shape Our World is a new series of definitive books drawing on ancient, medieval and modern writing.

Though largely discredited and superseded by subsequent developments and research, it retains its place as a hugely influential and significant opus. Published in 1899 but revised by Freud himself many times, it outlines his theories on the unconscious and dream symbolism. The Interpretation of Dreams is a seminal work of psychological and cultural heritage and probably the most important of Freud’s impressive output.

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