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Dream Interpretation in Psychoanalysis

Dream Interpretation by Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud's
Dream Interpretation is the most important book ever written about dreams and their scientific approach
Interpretation of dreams is the most exciting field of psychoanalysis. Many messages we receive require the interpretation of dream symbols or dreams themselves. The fascination dreams exert on us is surely a result of the belief that dreams convey messages outside ourselves, coming from spiritual entities or God himself, messages either showing us what is about to happen or warning against unpleasant future events.

  • Dreams and the Unconscious

First we should agree that this is not the context predictive, spiritual, that psychoanalysis approaches dreams in. Dream interpretation in psychoanalysis is a tool aiding in the discovery of psychic contents - latent ideas linked with repressed emotions and drives - within the unconscious mind, contents pathologically manifest in neurotic symptoms. Dreams interpretation is the royal path to (discovery of the) unconscious, as Sigmund Freud holds.

  • Recommendations

Here are a few very useful reference works for anybody willing to study dreams - the term "study" being the best in this context:

icon Sigmund Freud is the author of a monumental work on dream interpretation, irreplaceable to this day: the Interpretation of Dreams. An abridged version of the book has also been produced, bearing the same title and addressing the wider public. You may follow these links to Amazon.com bookstore:

icon  The study of dream interpretation can be historically pursued if you take our email course on Dream Interpretation from Primitives to Freud and Jung - click here for more information about this course's outline and registration. There is a also a downloadable PDF version of this course - learn more...

iconWhat is a dream and how we deal with it in psychoanalysis may be found by following our module 3 of the initiation into psychoanalysis course. Click here to learn more.

iconThere are a lot of papers on dreams interpreted through Freudian method in our paperstore - click here the check out the online list.

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