The Interpretation of Dreams
Chapter One
THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE ON
THE PROBLEMS OF DREAMS
In the following pages I shall provide proof that there is a psychological
technique which allows us to interpret dreams, and that when
this procedure is applied, every dream turns out to be a meaningful
psychical formation which can be given an identifiable place in what
goes on within us in our waking life. I shall further try to explain
the processes that make the dream so strange and incomprehensible,
and infer from them the nature of the psychical forces in their combinations
and conflicts, out of which the dream emerges. Having got
so far, my account will break off, for it will have reached the point at
which the problem of dreaming opens out into more comprehensive
problems which will have to be resolved on the basis of different
material.
I shall begin with a survey both of what earlier authorities have
written on the subject and of the present state of scientific inquiry
into the problems of dreams, as I s ... read full excerpt from: The Interpretation of Dreams ebook
