The Interpretation of Dreams
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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
- Length203,941 words · 13h 36m of reading
- Chapters50
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
50 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01BY
- 02INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
- 03PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- 04PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
- 05I THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE ON THE PROBLEMS OF THE DREAM[D
- 06THE ANALYSIS OF A SAMPLE DREAM
- 07DREAM OF JULY 23–24, 1895
- 08ANALYSIS
- 09III THE DREAM IS THE FULFILMENT OF A WISH
- 10IV DISTORTION IN DREAMS
- 11V THE MATERIAL AND SOURCES OF DREAMS
- 12VI THE DREAM-WORK
- 13VII THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE DREAM ACTIVITIES
- 14VIII LITERARY INDEX
- 15PSYCHOANALYTIC LITERATURE OF DREAMS
- 16Rank, Otto (Wien): _Zum Thema der Zahnreiztraume_. (Ebenda.)
- 17Amnesia, 412, 413
- 18Anamnesis, 281
- 19Cicero quoted, 6, 46
- 20Condensation, principle of, 471
- 21Conscious day phantasies, 393
- 22Dream activity, 329, 401
- 23Dreams about fire, 239
- 24External nerve stimuli, 186
- 25Forgetting in dreams, 35–37, 262, 405–421
- 26Hallam, Miss Florence, 13, 113
- 27Herbart quoted, 63
- 28Infantile psychology, 211, 221
- 29Lasker, 280
- 30Manifestations of pain, 453
- 31Material of the dream, 7–16, 138–259
- 32Psychic activity in the dream, 46, 62, 401
- 33Purposeful nature of dream-forgetting, 410
- 34Relation between dream content and dream stimuli, 187
- 35Riklin, 78
- 36Scaliger’s dream, 9
- 37Somatic dream stimuli, 33
- 38Structure of dream thoughts, 431
- 39Thought identity, 477
- 40Volition, 312
- 41Waking caused by the dream, 452–458
- 42Weed-Hallam, 138
- 43Wishes, forbidden, 209
- 44Work of displacement, 283–288
- 45Zola, E., 182
- 46I.—_Dream from October 1–2, 1910_
- 47II.—_Dream from October 10–11_
- 48III.—_Dream from October 2–3, 1910._
- 49Act. i. sc. 2. Translated by George Somers Clark.
- 50TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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