The Interpretation of Dreams (3rd edition) by Sigmund Freud

Translated by A. A. Brill (1911)

Table of Contents

• Preface to the Third, Second, and First Editions
• 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-Fulfilment
• 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
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