![]() ![]() In the original version presented here, Freud's emphasis falls more clearly on the use of words in dreams and on the difficulty of deciphering them. ![]() The most significant, and in many ways the most unfortunate addition, is a 50-page section devoted to the kind of mechanical reading of dream symbolism-long objects equal male genitalia, etc.-that has gained popular currency and partially obscured Freud's more profound insights into dreams. The first edition of The Interpretation of Dreams is much shorter than its subsequent editions each time the text was reissued, from 1909 onwards, Freud added to it. Now this groundbreaking new translation-the first to be based on the original text published in November 1899-brings us a more readable, more accurate, and more coherent picture of Freud's masterpiece. One hundred years ago Sigmund Freud published The Interpretations of Dreams, a book that, like Darwin's The Origin of Species, revolutionized our understanding of human nature. ![]()
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