The Interpretation of Dreams

The Interpretation of Dreams

Title page of the original German edition
Author	Sigmund Freud
Original title	Die Traumdeutung
Translators	A. A. Brill (first version) James Strachey (authorized version) Joyce Crick (translation of first edition) J. A. Underwood (most recent translation)
Language	German
Subject	Dream interpretation
Publisher	Franz Deuticke, Leipzig & Vienna
Publication date	November 4, 1899 (dated 1900)
Publication place	Austria
Published in English	1913 (Macmillan, translation of the German third edition)
Media type	Print
Text	The Interpretation of Dreams at Wikisource

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Important works The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901) Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905) Psychology of the Unconscious (1912) Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) The Ego and the Id (1923) Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933) The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (1964) Anti-Oedipus (1972) The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
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The Interpretation of Dreams (German: Die Traumdeutung) is an 1899 book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in which the author introduces his theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation, and discusses what would later become the theory of the Oedipus complex. Freud revised the book at least eight times and, in the third edition, added an extensive section which treated dream symbolism very literally, following the influence of Wilhelm Stekel. Freud said of this work, "Insight such as this falls to one's lot but once in a lifetime."^[1]

Dated 1900, the book was first published in an edition of 600 copies, which did not sell out for eight years. The Interpretation of Dreams later gained in popularity, and seven more editions were published in Freud's lifetime.^[2]

Because of the book's length and complexity, Freud also wrote an abridged version called On Dreams. The original text is widely regarded as one of Freud's most significant works.