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The Interpretation of Dreams Summary & Study Guide Description
The Interpretation of Dreams Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Freud opens The Interpretation of Dreams by stating the nature of his theoretical accomplishment in writing the book:
In the following pages I shall provide proof that there is a psychological technique which allows us to interpret dreams, and that when this procedure is applied, every dream turns out to be a meaningful, psychical formation which can be given an identifiable place in what goes on within our waking life.
The Scientific Literature on Dreams
Freud provides an overview of the scientific and theoretical findings on the interpretation of dreams up to that point in history. He notes that the first written work on dream psychology dates back to the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle's tract On Dreams and Dream Interpretation. However, he claims that no convincing theory of dream interpretation has yet been formulated; he asserts, "In spite of being concerned with the subject over many thousands of years, scientific understanding of the dream...
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