Crick, Joyce
Author: Freud, Sigmund
Author: Robertson, Ritchie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Location: Oxford ;
Subject: History
Subject: Psychoanalysis
Subject: Dream interpretation
Subject: Psychology, Clinical
Subject: Movements, Psychoanalysis
Subject: Dreams, General
Subject: Psychology : General
Edition Description: Paperback
Series: Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
Series Volume: 53-A
Publication Date: September 2000
Cover Type: Paperback
Grade Level: General/trade
Written in: English
Illustrations: Y
Number of Pages: 514
Book Size: 766x504x90 74
One hundred years ago Sigmund Freud published The Interpretations of Dreams, a book that, like Darwin's The Origin of Species, revolutionized our understanding of human nature. Now this groundbreaking new translation--the first to be based on the original text published in November1899--brings us a more readable, more accurate, and more coherent picture of Freud's masterpiece.
The first edition of The Interpretation of Dreams is much shorter than its subsequent editions; each time the text was reissued, from 1909 onwards, Freud added to it. The most significant, and in many ways the most unfortunate addition, is a 50-page section devoted to the kind of mechanical reading
of dream symbolism--long objects equal male genitalia, etc.--that has gained popular currency and partially obscured Freud's more profound insights into dreams. In the original version presented here, Freud's emphasis falls more clearly on the use of words in dreams and on the difficulty of
deciphering them. Without the strata of later additions, readers will find here a clearer development of Freud's central ideas--of dream as wish-fulfillment, of the dream's manifest and latent content, of the retelling of dreams as a continuation of the dreamwork, and much more. Joyce Crick's
translation is lighter and faster-moving than previous versions, enhancing the sense of dialogue with the reader, one of Freud's stylistic strengths, and allowing us to follow Freud's theory as it evolved through difficult cases, apparently intractable counter-examples, and fascinating analyses of
Freud's own dreams.
The restoration of Freud's classic is a major event, giving us in a sense a new work by one of this century' most startling, original, and influential thinkers.
Review:
"What a delight, then, to have a new translation of 'The Interpretation of Dreams,' on ethat strips off the scientistic veneer and gives us a Freud who is fresh and alive.... Lovely translation."--The New York Times Book Review
Synopsis:
This translation of "The Interpretation of Dreams" is based on the original text published in November 1899. It restores Freud's original argument, unmodified by revisions he made following the book's critical reception. It reveals Freud's emphasis on the use of words in dreams.
Synopsis:
One hundred years after Sigmund Freud published his revolutionary work on dreams, this ground-breaking new translation--the first to be based on the original text--brings forth a more readable, more accurate, and more coherent picture of Freud's masterpiece. Edited with an Introduction by Ritchie Robertson.
Description:
Includes bibliographic references (p. [xlviii]-xlix) and indexes.
