Dream
psychology is the key to Freud''s works and to all
modern psychology. With a simple, compact manual such as _Dream Psychology_ there shall be no longer any excuse for ignorance of the most revolutionary psychological system of modern times.
Sigmund Freud, physiologist, medical doctor and psychologist, is generally recognized as one of the most influential and authoritative thinkers of the twentieth century.
Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.
Freud''s
theories are anything but theoretical.
Remember the scornful reception which first was accorded to Freud''s discoveries in the domain of the unconscious.
The words "dream interpretation" were and still are indeed fraught with unpleasant, unscientific associations. They remind one of all sorts of childish, superstitious notions, which make up the thread and woof of
Dream books, read by none but the ignorant and the primitive.
The wealth of detail, the infinite care never to let anything pass unexplained, with which Freud presented to the public the result of his investigations, are impressing more and more serious-minded scientists, but the examination of his evidential data demands arduous work and presupposes an absolutely open mind.
This is why we still encounter men, totally unfamiliar with Freud''s writings,
men who were not even interested enough in the subject to attempt an
interpretation of their dreams or their patients'' dreams, deriding Freud''s theories and combatting them with the help of statements which he never made.
An Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology, this classic work explores his theory that
unconscious conflicts over repressed wishes have a tendency to manifest themselves in dreams, parapraxes ("Freudian slips"), and symptoms.
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