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On dreams

Chapter 16: LITERATURE
By Sigmund Freud
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The essay contrasts popular and scientific approaches to dreaming and argues that dreams are meaningful expressions of unconscious mental life. It explains how wishes, often repressed, are transformed by a dream-work into manifest content through mechanisms such as condensation, displacement, dramatization, and symbolization, and examines censorship that disguises latent desires to preserve sleep. The piece analyzes sample dreams, outlines classes of dreams, relates dreaming to repression and other unconscious processes, and explores how dream symbolism connects with myth, folklore, and pathological mental phenomena.

LITERATURE

For a completer study of Dream Symbolism, consult the work of Artemidorus Daldianus: The Interpretation of Dreams. Rendered into English by “R. W.”—i.e., Robert Wood. The fourth edition, newly written. B. L., London, 1644. The last edition was published in 1786.

Scherner, R. A. Das Leben des Traumes. Berlin, 1861.

Freud. The Interpretation of Dreams.

For the symbolism of legend, myth, and saga compared with dreams, see—

Abraham, Karl. Traum und Mythus.

Rank, Otto. Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden.

Riklin, F. Wunscherfüllung und Symbolik im Märchen.

These three works are published by Franz Deuticke, Vienna.

English translations are ready, or are in preparation.

Recent literature will be found in—

Jahrbuch für Psychoanalytische und Psychopathologische Forschungen: Franz Deuticke.

Internationale Zeitschrift für Ärztliche Psychoanalyse; and Imago (both published by Hugo Heller and Co., Vienna).

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
  • Typos fixed; non-standard spelling and dialect retained.