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Article: The bible of dreams turns 100.(Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams")(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- November 8, 1999
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Early sales were not promising: only 351 copies in its first six years in print. Yet during the 100 years following its publication on Nov. 4, 1899, The Interpretation of Dreams--the book Sigmund Freud deemed his most important work--came to exert as great an influence on Western thought and culture as it did on the broad array of psychotherapies that would develop.
Even those who revised or rejected the book's central premise--that dreams are the symbolic fulfillment of repressed infantile wishes--still had to reckon with Freud's notion of the unconscious. "We all tip our hats to Freud," says Rosalind Cartwright, director of the Sleep Disorder Service and ...