The Interpretation of Dreams - by Sigmund Freud

(3rd edition)

Translated by A. A. Brill (1911)

[This book has been released in at least eight editions. The third edition, reproduced here, is old enough to be "public domain" (no longer restricted by copyright). More recent editions are available in bookstores.]

Table of Contents

• Preface to the Third, Second, and First Editions
  
• Chapter I: The Scientific Literature Dealing with the Problems of Dreams
  • A. The Relation of Dreams to Waking Life
  • B. The Material of Dreams -- Memory in Dreams
  • C. The Stimuli and Sources of Dreams
    • 1. External Sensory Stimuli
    • 2. Internal (Subjective) Sensory Excitations
    • 3. Internal Organic Somatic Stimuli
    • 4. Psychical Sources of Stimulation
  • D. Why Dreams are Forgotten after Waking
  • E. The Distinguishing Psychological Characteristics of Dreams
  • F. The Moral Sense in Dreams
  • G. Theories of Dreaming and its Function
  • H. The Relations between Dreams and Mental Diseases
    
• Chapter II: The Method of Interpreting Dreams: An Analysis of a Specimen Dream
  
• Chapter III: The Dream as Wish-Fulfilment
  
• Chapter IV: Distortion in Dreams
  
• Chapter V. The Material and Sources of Dreams
  • A. Recent and Indifferent Materials in Dreams
  • B. Infantile Material as a Source of Dreams
  • C. The Somatic Sources of Dreams
  • D. Typical Dreams
    • 1. Embarrassing Dreams of Being Naked
    • 2. Dreams of the Death of beloved Persons
    • 3. Examination Dreams
• Chapter VI: The Dream-Work
  • A. The Work of Condensation
  • B. The Work of Displacement
  • C. The Means of Representation in Dreams
  • D. Considerations of Representability
  • E. Representation by Symbols in Dreams -- Some Further Typical Dreams
  • F. Some Examples -- Calculations and Speeches in Dreams
  • G. Absurd Dreams -- Intellectual Activity in Dreams
  • H. Affects in Dreams
  • I. Secondary Revision
    
• Chapter VII: The Psychology of the Dream-Processes
  • A. The Forgetting of Dreams
  • B. Regression
  • C. Wish-Fulfillment
  • D. Arousal by Dreams -- The Function of Dreams -- Anxiety Dreams
  • E. The Primary and Secondary Processes -- Repression
  • F. The Unconscious and Consciousness -- Reality
    
• Bibliography

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