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The Interpretation of Dreams

Sigmund Freud

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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…

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  • AuthorSigmund Freud
  • SourceProject Gutenberg #66048
  • Length202,204 words · 13h 29m of reading
  • Chapters50
  • DictionaryNot yet generated
  • CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
  • Source checked2026-08-28

Contents

50 chapters

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  1. 01BY
  2. 02INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
  3. 03PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
  4. 04PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
  5. 05I THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE ON THE PROBLEMS OF THE DREAM[D]
  6. 06THE ANALYSIS OF A SAMPLE DREAM
  7. 07DREAM OF JULY 23–24, 1895
  8. 08ANALYSIS
  9. 09III THE DREAM IS THE FULFILMENT OF A WISH
  10. 10IV DISTORTION IN DREAMS
  11. 11V THE MATERIAL AND SOURCES OF DREAMS
  12. 12VI THE DREAM-WORK
  13. 13VII THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE DREAM ACTIVITIES
  14. 14VIII LITERARY INDEX
  15. 15PSYCHOANALYTIC LITERATURE OF DREAMS
  16. 16Rank, Otto (Wien): _Zum Thema der Zahnreiztraume_. (Ebenda.)
  17. 17Amnesia, 412, 413
  18. 18Anamnesis, 281
  19. 19Cicero quoted, 6, 46
  20. 20Condensation, principle of, 471
  21. 21Conscious day phantasies, 393
  22. 22Dream activity, 329, 401
  23. 23Dreams about fire, 239
  24. 24External nerve stimuli, 186
  25. 25Forgetting in dreams, 35–37, 262, 405–421
  26. 26Hallam, Miss Florence, 13, 113
  27. 27Herbart quoted, 63
  28. 28Infantile psychology, 211, 221
  29. 29Lasker, 280
  30. 30Manifestations of pain, 453
  31. 31Material of the dream, 7–16, 138–259
  32. 32Psychic activity in the dream, 46, 62, 401
  33. 33Purposeful nature of dream-forgetting, 410
  34. 34Relation between dream content and dream stimuli, 187
  35. 35Riklin, 78
  36. 36Scaliger’s dream, 9
  37. 37Somatic dream stimuli, 33
  38. 38Structure of dream thoughts, 431
  39. 39Thought identity, 477
  40. 40Volition, 312
  41. 41Waking caused by the dream, 452–458
  42. 42Weed-Hallam, 138
  43. 43Wishes, forbidden, 209
  44. 44Work of displacement, 283–288
  45. 45Zola, E., 182
  46. 46I.—_Dream from October 1–2, 1910_
  47. 47II.—_Dream from October 10–11_
  48. 48III.—_Dream from October 2–3, 1910._
  49. 49Act. i. sc. 2. Translated by George Somers Clark.
  50. 50TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

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