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The book presents a systematic theory that dreams represent disguised wish-fulfillments arising from unconscious mental processes. It distinguishes latent dream-thoughts from manifest dream-content and describes the mental operations that transform one into the other—condensation, displacement, representability, and secondary revision—while demonstrating methods of interpretation such as free association. Drawing on numerous case examples and the author's own dreams, it links dream formation to broader psychopathology, especially neurotic symptoms, and emphasizes symbolism, childhood experiences, and sexual drives as formative influences, proposing dreams as a window onto unconscious motives and psychic conflicts.

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Title: The Interpretation of Dreams

Author: Sigmund Freud

Translator: A. A. Brill

Release date: August 12, 2021 [eBook #66048]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: The Macmillan Company, 1913

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THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS

BY
Prof. Dr. SIGMUND FREUD, LL.D.
AUTHORISED TRANSLATION OF THIRD EDITION WITH INTRODUCTION
BY
A. A. BRILL, Ph.B., M.D.
CHIEF OF THE NEUROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE BRONX HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY CLINICAL ASSISTANT IN NEUROLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FORMER ASSISTANT PHYSICIAN IN THE CENTRAL ISLIP STATE HOSPITAL AND IN THE CLINIC OF PSYCHIATRY, ZÜRICH
Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo
NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1913