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Article: Works of Sigmund Freud: 'The Interpretation of Dreams' (1900)
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Freud, Sigmund
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
"The Interpretation of Dreams" (1900)
The cornerstone of Psychoanalysis is the interpretation of dreams. Freud
called dream-interpretation the via reggia, the "royal road" to the
unconscious, and it is the theory of dreams that has best stood the test of
time over a period of more than seventy years.
Freud admired Aristotle's dictum that dreaming is the activity of the
mind during sleep. It was perhaps the use of the term activity that Freud most
appreciated in this brief definition for, as his understanding of the dynamics
of dreaming increased, so did the impression of ceaseless mental activity
differing in quality from that of ordinary waking ...
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