The restoration of Freud's classic is a major event, giving us in a sense a new work by one of this century' most startling, original, and influential thinkers.Ī Case of Hysteria: (Dora) (Oxford World's Classics)
Joyce Crick's translation is lighter and faster-moving than previous versions, enhancing the sense of dialogue with the reader, one of Freud's stylistic strengths, and allowing us to follow Freud's theory as it evolved through difficult cases, apparently intractable counter-examples, and fascinating analyses of Freud's own dreams. Without the strata of later additions, readers will find here a clearer development of Freud's central ideas-of dream as wish-fulfillment, of the dream's manifest and latent content, of the retelling of dreams as a continuation of the dreamwork, and much more. In the original version presented here, Freud's emphasis falls more clearly on the use of words in dreams and on the difficulty of deciphering them. The most significant, and in many ways the most unfortunate addition, is a 50-page section devoted to the kind of mechanical reading of dream symbolism-long objects equal male genitalia, etc.-that has gained popular currency and partially obscured Freud's more profound insights into dreams. The first edition of The Interpretation of Dreams is much shorter than its subsequent editions each time the text was reissued, from 1909 onwards, Freud added to it. Now this groundbreaking new translation-the first to be based on the original text published in November 1899-brings us a more readable, more accurate, and more coherent picture of Freud's masterpiece. One hundred years ago Sigmund Freud published The Interpretations of Dreams, a book that, like Darwin's The Origin of Species, revolutionized our understanding of human nature. This book is an interesting and thought-provoking read that appeals to both people interested in psychology and the casual reader.The Interpretation of Dreams (Oxford World's Classics) Some dreams are vivid enough to be remembered, others are forgotten the moment we wake. We spend nearly one third of our lives sleeping and during some of that time we dream. By analyzing and understanding these dreams, Freud's patients were able to get a better understanding of their underlying, unexpressed motives and this set them on the path to healing.
Many of the dreams he recounts were analyzed in the context of Victorian attitudes towards sexuality, repressed desires and unfulfilled wishes. Freud developed a standard system of symbols and their actual meaning based on his studies and used it to interpret and decode what his patient was really thinking and conveying.
Some of the most interesting parts of the book deal with symbols and language in dreams. He refuted the purely medical and purely spiritual interpretations that had been prevalent till then and proposed a completely new theory. While some of the theories may no longer be relevant or valid in today's world, this book is indeed one of the foundation stones of Freudian psychoanalysis and marked a water-shed in the attitude towards dreams. In many of them, Freud uses his own dreams as subjects for interpretation, while in others, he uses his patients' dreams to elucidate his theories of psychoanalysis. He considered dreams as extra information that the patient was unable to convey to the analyst during the waking state.ĭream Psychology, first published in 1921, and translated by MD Eder, is a definitive work which changed the climate of treatments and handling of different neuroses and dysfunctional people. This is a clinical therapeutic method for dealing with mental disturbances. Sigmund Freud was educated to be a neurologist, but went on to revolutionize the world of human psychology by establishing the theories of psychoanalysis. In Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners, the Austrian psychoanalyst, Dr Sigmund Freud shares his exciting early discoveries that there was indeed a connection between his patients' dreams and their mental disturbances. Sigmund Freud was one of the first people to examine dreams seriously and interpret them in the context of our waking lives. Do they mean something? Do dreams help us see into the future? These questions have intrigued us for centuries. From the dawn of human consciousness, dreams have always fascinated us.
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