Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

by Sigmund Freud, M. D. Eder (Editor)

Overview

It is said that Freud's interest in dreams dated from an early age and that he kept a dream journal. By the last decade of the nineteenth century, he began making an intensive study of himself as the model for the explorations of personality development, memory, and dreams, which led to his revolutionary theories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607783039
Publisher:	MobileReference
Publication date:	01/01/2010
Series:	Mobi Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	234 KB

About the Author

Born in Austria on May 6, 1856, Sigmund Freud theorized and practiced neuropsychology, studying first hysteria and then sexuality. A highly controversial intellectual figure of the 20th century, he studied dreams, defined what he called the Oedipus complex and laid out three stages of infantile sexual development. He remains one of the most influential figures in today's world.

Table of Contents

Preface     vi
Introduction     xi
Dreams Have a Meaning     17
The Dream Mechanism     28
Why the Dream Disguises the Desires     43
Dream Analysis     53
Sex in Dreams     65
The Wish in Dreams     79
The Function of the Dream     92
The Primary and Secondary Process-Regression     102
The Unconscious and Consciousness-Reality     117
Index     125