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The book introduces Freud's theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation, and also first 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."

The initial print run of the book was very low — it took many years to sell out the first 600 copies. However, the work gained popularity as Freud did, and seven more editions were printed in his lifetime.

The text was translated from German into English by A. A. Brill, an American Freudian psychoanalyst, and later in an authorized translation by James Strachey, who was British. Because the book is very long and complex, Freud wrote an abridged version called On Dreams.

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The Interpretation of Dreams

Sigmund Freud

“Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo”

THIRD EDITION

TRANSLATED BY A. A. BRILL

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 1913

NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2010

I.		The Scientific Literature on the Problems of the Dreams
II.		Method of Dream Interpretation: The Analysis of a Sample Dream
III.		The Dream Is the Fulfilment of a Wish
IV.		Distortion in Dreams
V.		The Material and Sources of Dreams
VI.		The Dream-Work
VII.		The Psychology of the Dream Activities
VIII.		Literary Index

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