The Interpretation of Dreams

Sigmund Freud, A. A. Brill

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9780486803272
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychoanalysis
• Index: Psychology

Until the beginning of the twentieth century, most people considered dreams unworthy of serious consideration. Sigmund Freud, however, had noticed that they formed an active part in the analysis of his patients, and he gradually came to believe that they represent struggles by the unconscious to resolve conflicts. In this classic of psychology, Freud explains the dual nature of dreams ― their apparent content and their true, if hidden, meaning ― as well as the concept of wish fulfillment and a universal language for interpreting dreams.
This groundbreaking work also contains Freud's introduction of the notion that sexuality plays an important role in childhood, a theory that deeply shocked his contemporaries. Psychological journals rejected the book, and scientific publications ignored it, but the author recognized it as containing his greatest insights. The Interpretation of Dreams eventually helped set the stage for psychoanalytic theory, and it remains Freud's most original work.

INDEX

ABRAHAM, K., 70, 220

Absurd dreams, 53, 294, 300–327

Absurdity of dreams, 294

Acceleration of thought in dreams, 356

Accidental stimuli, 167

Adler, Alf., 217

Affects, flagging of, 410

in the dream, 327–349

inversion of, 336

restraint of, 334

sources of, 343

suppression of, 333, 334, 336

transformation of, 430

Agoraphobia, 225, 412

Alarm clock dreams, 19, 20, 168

Allegorising interpretation of dreams, 43

symbolisms, 73

Altruistic impulses, 191

Ambiguity of dreams, 113

Amnesia, 370, 371

Analyses of dreams, 81–92, 105–109, 112–116, 119, 129–132, 140–142, 144–150, 150–165, 174–178, 181–183, 197–199, 204–207, 209–233, 237–255, 277, 278, 281, 285, 286, 287–327, 329–337, 339–349, 356, 357, 413–415

self, 79

Analysis of dream life, 29

of psychological formations, 438

Anamnesis, 253

Anxiety dreams, 25, 67, 103, 123, 179, 180, 204, 208, 221, 223, 371, 391, 412–417

Apparent duration of dreams, 48

Arbitrariness in dream interpretation, 171

Aristotle, 2, 24

Arithmetic speeches in dreams, 289–3...