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The Interpretation of Dreams (3rd edition)

by Sigmund Freud

Translated by A. A. Brill (1911)

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Table of Contents

Note: sections not underlined are included with the preceding link.

• Chapter I: The Scientific Literature Dealing with the Problems of Dreams

  • A. The Relation of Dreams to Waking Life

  • B. The Material of Dreams -- Memory in Dreams

  • C. The Stimuli and Sources of Dreams

    • 1. External Sensory Stimuli

    • 2. Internal (Subjective) Sensory Excitations

    • 3. Internal Organic Somatic Stimuli

    • 4. Psychical Sources of Stimulation

  • D. Why Dreams are Forgotten after Waking

  • E. The Distinguishing Psychological Characteristics of Dreams

  • F. The Moral Sense in Dreams

  • G. Theories of Dreaming and its Function

  • H. The Relations between Dreams and Mental Diseases

• Chapter II: The Method of Interpreting Dreams: An Analysis of a Specimen Dream

• Chapter III: The Dream as Wish-fulfillment

• Chapter IV: Distortion in Dreams

• Chapter V. The Material and Sources of Dreams

  • A. Recent and Indifferent Materials in Dreams

  • B. Infantile Material as a Source of Dreams

  • C. The Somatic Sources of Dreams

  • D. Typical Dreams

    • 1. Embarrassing Dreams of Being Naked

    • 2. Dreams of the Death of Persons of Whom the Dreamer is Fond

    • 3. Other Typical Dreams

    • 4. Examination Dreams

• Chapter VI: The Dream-Work

  • A. The Work of Condensation

  • B. The Work of Displacement

  • C. The Means of Representation in Dreams

  • D. Considerations of Representability

  • E. Representation by Symbols in Dreams -- Some Further Typical Dreams

  • F. Some Examples -- Calculations and Speeches in Dreams

  • G. Absurd Dreams -- Intellectual Activity in Dreams

  • H. Affects in Dreams

  • I. Secondary Revision

• Chapter VII: The Psychology of the Dream-Processes

  • A. The Forgetting of Dreams

  • B. Regression

  • C. Wish-Fulfillment

  • D. Arousal by Dreams -- The Function of Dreams -- Anxiety Dreams

  • E. The Primary and Secondary Processes -- Repression

  • F. The Unconscious and Consciousness -- Reality

• Bibliography