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Title: The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud ISBN: 0-380-01000-3 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 20 March, 1980 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (25 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Authoritative and full of Insight
Comment: Dreams are some of the most mysterious, most enchanting, and most sacred experiences in all of human existence--and yet they are also some of the most elusive, and so their meaning has been scrutinized by every culture of the human race, for thousands and thousands of years.
In all of these inquiries, perhaps none has been more thorough, more scientific, and more systematic than Dr. Sigmund Freud's "Interpretation of Dreams" (1900). In his book, Freud surveys the scientific research on dreams put forth so far (a remarkable achievement of scholarship in itself), and then puts forth his own theory of dreams.
Dreams, Freud claims, are nothing more than a fulfillment of an unconscious wish. He supports his theory with analysis from a selection of actual dreams from his patients and from his own experience.
Much of this book is entertaining and enlightening. Freud's good taste in literature is reflected in his own engaging style, and his sense of scholarly adventure is catching. Plus, he doesn't shy away from the big questions. How can we interpret dreams? How does a dream come about? What is the purpose of dreams? Why are all dreams wish fulfillments? What are the meaning of typical dreams, like losing teeth?--all these questions are tackled here. This is the book where Freud first puts forth his Oedipal theory.
Freud's theory is always insightful, if not totally accurate. He seems to try too hard to make all the data jive with his "wish-fulfillment" theory, and when it doesn't, he resorts to ludicrous arguments reminiscent of Anselm's ontological catastrophe. For example, when a dream is clearly not a wish fulfillment, Freud asserts that it has actually fulfilled a wish--a wish that his theory is wrong. Poppycock.
Despite these occasional stretches of reasonability, you'll come away from this book with a much greater understanding of the nature of dreams and the mental processes that bring dreams about. Highly recommended.
This is a good intro to Freud; consider also "Introductory Lectures on Psychoanaylsis."
Rating: 4
Summary: Freud's 100 years of dreaming
Comment: In a letter to his confidant and friend, Wilhelm Fleiss, the then middle aged neurologist, Sigmund Freud, was in the midst of researching and writing his beloved 'dream book'. He wrote the following:
"Now I have finished and am thinking about the dream book again. I have been looking into the literature and feel like a Celtic imp."Oh, how I am glad that no one, no one knows..." No one suspects that the dream is not nonsense but wish fulfillment."
Indeed, this is the premise of Freud's entire thesis: dreams are no more than repressed unconscious wishes, battling for expression and consummation.
In his own words, Freud had 'dared' to rally against the 'objections of severe science, to take the part of the ancients and of superstition.' In 1900, the official year of the book's publication, its reception, despite its provoctive title, was tepid, and in the course of six years, only sold 351 copies. Freud never gave up hope, and 30 years later, in the preface of the third English edition, he wrote, "It contains, even according to my present day judgement, the most valuable of all the discoveries it has been my good fortune to make. Insight such as this falls to one's lot but once a lifetime.' In present day, one can question any Freud scholar about ~The Interpretation of Dreams~ and they will say the same thing: the book contains everything that 'is' psychoanalysis.
Anyone interested in the history of psychoanalysis and the mind of Sigmund Freud, reading this book is an absolute must. The reading runs along too, quite easily, as Freud was an excellent writer: his unique prose style even shines through some clumsy translations.
If you are interested in the book's process of development, I would suggest reading ~The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Fliess~; another gold mine for understanding the growth of psychoanalysis.
Rating: 3
Summary: Pseudoscience
Comment: For all those who need to get their baloney straight from the horse's mouth, this book is all the Freud you need to decide: visionary or fraud. I find it incredible that thousands, even millions, of seemingly intelligent people have fallen for something with so little objective evidence in its favor.
Although Freud had little, if any, sense of humor, he is unintentionally funny in this book. For that reason, if for no other, it deserves at least an attempted reading.
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Title: The Ego and the Id (The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud) by Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Joan Riviere ISBN: 0393001423 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud, Peter Gay, James Strachey ISBN: 0393007693 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: February, 1990 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Peter Gay ISBN: 0393301583 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: July, 1989 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: On Dreams by Sigmund Freud, James Strachey ISBN: 039300144X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 1990 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety by Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Alix Strachey, Peter Gay ISBN: 0393008746 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 1977 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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